Myocardin and ternary complex factors compete for SRF to control smooth muscle gene expression

Nature

Volumn 428, Issue 6979, 2004, Pages 185-189

  Wang, Zhigao ^a   Wang, Da Zhi ^a,b   Hockemeyer, Dirk ^c   McAnally, John ^a   Nordheim, Alfred ^c   Olson, Eric N ^a  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL ACTIVATION; MUSCLE; PLASTICITY;

GENE EXPRESSION; SERUM RESPONSE FACTORS (SRF); TERNARY COMPLEX FACTORS (TCF);

GENES;

MUSCLE PROTEIN; MYOCARDIN; SERUM RESPONSE FACTOR; TERNARY COMPLEX FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR ELK 1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR ETS 1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR ETS 2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BIOLOGY;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; GENE REPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MOUSE; MUSCLE DEVELOPMENT; MUSCLE GROWTH; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PLASTICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN FAMILY; RAT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SMOOTH MUSCLE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING, COMPETITIVE; CELL LINE; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ETS-DOMAIN PROTEIN ELK-1; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUSCLE, SMOOTH; MUTATION; MYOCARDIUM; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PHOSPHORYLATION; PLATELET-DERIVED GROWTH FACTOR; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; RATS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RESPONSE ELEMENTS; SERUM RESPONSE FACTOR; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSGENES;

ANIMALIA; CERVUS ELAPHUS;

EID: 1642297200     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature02382     Document Type: Article

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