Article
Mitogen-activated protein kinases mediate changes in gene expression, but not cytoskeletal organization associated with cardiac muscle cell hypertrophy.
The Journal of cell biology - 1 Sept 1994
Thorburn J, Frost J A, Thorburn A
Abstract excerpt
Shortly after birth, cardiac myocytes lose the ability to divide, and, in adult animals, heart muscle grows by a process of cellular hypertrophy where each individual cell gets larger. We have previously shown that activated Ras protein can induce markers of the hypertrophic phenotype, including atrial natriuretic factor (ANF) expression and organization of contractile proteins, and that Ras is at least partially...
Topics
- Actins
- Animals
- Calcium-Calmodulin-Dependent Protein Kinases
- Cells, Cultured
- Cytoskeleton
- Enzyme Activation
- Gene Expression Regulation
- Hypertrophy
- Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinase 1
- Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinase 3
