Myocardin: A component of a molecular switch for smooth muscle differentiation

Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology

Volumn 34, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 1345-1356

  Chen, Jiyuan ^a   Kitchen, Chad M ^a   Streb, Jeffrey W ^a   Miano, Joseph M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Calponin; Differentiation; Myocardin; Promoter; Serum response factor; Smooth muscle

Indexed keywords

CALPONIN; GENE PRODUCT; MYOCARDIN; SERUM RESPONSE FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; MESSENGER RNA; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; TRANSACTIVATOR PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; AORTA MEDIA; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CHROMOSOME MAP; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE SWITCHING; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; MOLECULAR CLONING; MYOBLAST; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RAT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SMOOTH MUSCLE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; CELL CULTURE; CELL DIVISION; CELL STRAIN COS1; CYTOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHENOTYPE; TIME; TRANSACTIVATION;

ANIMALIA; CUCUMBER MOSAIC VIRUS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL DIVISION; CELLS, CULTURED; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; COS CELLS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUSCLE, SMOOTH; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PHENOTYPE; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RATS; RNA, MESSENGER; SERUM RESPONSE FACTOR; TIME FACTORS; TRANS-ACTIVATION (GENETICS); TRANS-ACTIVATORS;

EID: 0036773632     PISSN: 00222828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-2828(02)92086-9     Document Type: Article

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