Evidence for serum response factor-mediated regulatory networks governing SM22α transcription in smooth, skeletal, and cardiac muscle cells

Developmental Biology

Volumn 187, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 311-321

  Li, Li ^a   Liu, Zheng Chang ^b   Mercer, Brian ^b   Overbeek, Paul ^c   Olson, Eric N ^b  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALPONIN; CHIMERIC PROTEIN; MUSCLE PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HEART MUSCLE CELL; MOUSE; MUSCLE DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REPORTER GENE; SERUM FACTOR; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALIA; MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 0030851947     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/dbio.1997.8621     Document Type: Article

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