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A cysteine-rich LIM-only protein mediates regulation of smooth muscle-specific gene expression by cGMP-dependent protein kinase.
The Journal of biological chemistry - 16 Nov 2007
Zhang Tong, Zhuang Shunhui, Casteel Darren E, Looney David J, Boss Gerry R, Pilz Renate B
Abstract excerpt
Vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMCs) undergo phenotypic modulation, changing from a differentiated, contractile to a de-differentiated, synthetic phenotype; the change is associated with decreased expression of smooth muscle (SM)-specific genes and loss of cGMP-dependent protein kinase (PKG), but transfection of PKG into de-differentiated VSMCs restores SM-specific gene expression. We show that small interference...
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