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Protein kinase G signaling disrupts Rac1-dependent focal adhesion assembly in liver specific pericytes.
American journal of physiology. Cell physiology - 1 Jul 2011
Routray Chittaranjan, Liu Chunsheng, Yaqoob Usman, Billadeau Daniel D, Bloch Kenneth D, Kaibuchi Kozo, Shah Vijay H, Kang Ningling
Abstract excerpt
Nitric oxide (NO) regulates the function of perivascular cells (pericytes), including hepatic stellate cells (HSC), mainly by activating cGMP and cGMP-dependent kinase (PKG) via NO/cGMP paracrine signaling. Although PKG is implicated in integrin-mediated cell adhesion to extracellular matrix, whether or how PKG signaling regulates the assembly of focal adhesion complexes (FA) and migration of HSC is not known....
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