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Serum response factor orchestrates nascent sarcomerogenesis and silences the biomineralization gene program in the heart.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 18 Nov 2008
Niu Zhiyv, Iyer Dinakar, Conway Simon J, Martin James F, Ivey Kathryn, Srivastava Deepak, Nordheim Alfred, Schwartz Robert J
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Our conditional serum response factor (SRF) knockout, Srf (Cko), in the heart-forming region blocked the appearance of rhythmic beating myocytes, one of the earliest cardiac defects caused by the ablation of a cardiac-enriched transcription factor. The appearance of Hand1 and Smyd1, transcription and chromatin remodeling factors; Acta1, Acta2, Myl3, and Myom1, myofibril proteins; and calcium-activated...
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