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Mechanical Stress and Single Nucleotide Variants Regulate Alternative Splicing of the MYLK Gene.
American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology - 1 Jan 2017
Mascarenhas Joseph B, Tchourbanov Alex Y, Fan Hanli, Danilov Sergei M, Wang Ting, Garcia Joe G N
Abstract excerpt
The nonmuscle (nm) myosin light-chain kinase isoform (MLCK), encoded by the MYLK gene, is a vital participant in regulating vascular barrier responses to mechanical and inflammatory stimuli. We determined that MYLK is alternatively spliced, yielding functionally distinct nmMLCK splice variants including nmMLCK2, a splice variant highly expressed in vascular endothelial cells (EC) and associated with reduced EC...
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