Suppression of cyclic GMP-specific phosphodiesterase 5 promotes apoptosis and inhibits growth in HT29 cells

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Phosphodiesterase 5 (PDE5) is a major isoform of cGMP phosphodiesterase in a variety of human tumor cell lines and plays a key role in regulating intracellular cGMP concentrations ([cGMP]i). Here, we demonstrate that suppression of PDE5 gene expression by antisense pZeoSV2/ASP5 plasmid transfection results in a sustained increase in [cGMP]i, growth inhibition, and apoptosis in human colon tumor HT29 cells. With...

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