Muscle-specific signaling mechanism that links actin dynamics to serum response factor

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 25, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 3173-3181

  Kuwahara, Koichiro ^a   Barrientos, Tomasa ^a   Pipes, G C Teg ^a   Li, Shijie ^a   Olson, Eric N ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; ACTIN BINDING PROTEIN; SERUM RESPONSE FACTOR; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; STRIATED MUSCLE ACTIVATOR OF RHO SIGNALING; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACTIN POLYMERIZATION; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL STRAIN 3T3; CELL STRAIN COS1; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HEART MUSCLE CELL; HELA CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR IMPORT; NUCLEAR LOCALIZATION SIGNAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SARCOMERE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SKELETAL MUSCLE;

ACTINS; ACTIVE TRANSPORT, CELL NUCLEUS; ANIMALS; CELL LINE; CELL NUCLEUS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HUMANS; MICE; MICROFILAMENT PROTEINS; MUSCLE DEVELOPMENT; MUSCLE FIBERS; MYOCYTES, CARDIAC; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; ONCOGENE PROTEINS, FUSION; RHOA GTP-BINDING PROTEIN; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; SERUM RESPONSE FACTOR; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 16244382549     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.25.8.3173-3181.2005     Document Type: Article

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