Activation of DNA synthesis and AP-1 by profilin, an actin-binding protein, via binding to a cell surface receptor in cultured rat mesangial cells

Journal of the American Society of Nephrology

Volumn 11, Issue 9, 2000, Pages 1620-1630

  Tamura, Masahito ^a,c   Yanagihara, Nobuyuki ^a   Tanaka, Hiroshi ^a   Osajima, Akihiko ^a   Hirano, Takeshi ^b   Higashi, Ken ^a   Yamada, Kenneth M ^c   Nakashima, Yasuhide ^a   Hirano, Hideyasu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OCCUPATIONAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OCCUPATIONAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DENTAL AND CRANIOFACIAL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIN BINDING PROTEIN; CELL SURFACE RECEPTOR; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 4,5 BISPHOSPHATE; PROFILIN; PROTEIN KINASE C; STRESS ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; THYMIDINE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR AP 1;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SYNTHESIS; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE INDUCTION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; GLOMERULUS; MALE; MESANGIUM CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; RAT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 0033844679     PISSN: 10466673     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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