Article
Repression of endogenous Smad7 by Ski.
The Journal of biological chemistry - 2 Jul 2004
Denissova Natalia G, Liu Fang
Abstract excerpt
The Ski protein has been proposed to serve as a corepressor for Smad4 to maintain a transforming growth factor-beta (TGF-beta)-responsive promoter at a repressed, basal level. However, there have been no reports so far that it indeed acts on a natural promoter. We have previously cloned the human Smad7 promoter and shown that it contains the 8-base pair palindromic Smad-binding element (SBE) necessary for...
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