MKL1 mediates TGF-β1-induced α-smooth muscle actin expression in human renal epithelial cells

American Journal of Physiology - Renal Physiology

Volumn 294, Issue 5, 2008, Pages

  Elberg, Gerard ^a   Chen, Lijuan ^a   Elberg, Dorit ^a   Chan, Michael D ^a   Logan, Charlotte J ^a   Turman, Martin A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Epithelial mesenchymal transition; Myocardin; Myofibroblast; Transcription; Ubiquitin

Indexed keywords

ALPHA SMOOTH MUSCLE ACTIN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; HYBRID PROTEIN; MEGAKARYOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA FACTOR 1; PROTEASOME INHIBITOR; SERUM RESPONSE FACTOR; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA1; UBIQUITIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ACTIN; DNA; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; MKL1 PROTEIN, HUMAN; ONCOPROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CHROMATIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; EPITHELIUM CELL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; KIDNEY TUBULE EPITHELIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SERUM RESPONSIVE ELEMENT; BIOSYNTHESIS; CELL CULTURE; CYTOLOGY; DRUG ANTAGONISM; DRUG EFFECT; FIBROBLAST; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GENETICS; KIDNEY; KIDNEY TUBULE; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SMOOTH MUSCLE; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ACTINS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CELL NUCLEUS; CELLS, CULTURED; DNA; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EPITHELIAL CELLS; FIBROBLASTS; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HUMANS; KIDNEY; KIDNEY TUBULES; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MUSCLE, SMOOTH; ONCOGENE PROTEINS, FUSION; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA1;

EID: 45149112555     PISSN: 1931857X     EISSN: 15221466     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajprenal.00142.2007     Document Type: Article

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