Cell-specific nuclear import of plasmid DNA in smooth muscle requires tissue-specific transcription factors and DNA sequences

Gene Therapy

Volumn 15, Issue 15, 2008, Pages 1107-1115

  Miller, A M ^a   Dean, D A ^a,b  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAMMA SMOOTH MUSCLE ACTIN; PLASMID DNA; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; SERUM RESPONSE FACTOR; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; SMOOTH MUSCLE ACTIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR NKX3;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL BASED GENE THERAPY; CELL SPECIFICITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; DNA SEQUENCE; EPITHELIUM CELL; NONHUMAN; NONVIRAL GENE DELIVERY SYSTEM; NUCLEAR LOCALIZATION SIGNAL; NUCLEAR PORE COMPLEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER; TISSUE SPECIFICITY;

ACTIVE TRANSPORT, CELL NUCLEUS; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL LINE; ELECTROPORATION; GENE EXPRESSION; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUSCLE, SMOOTH; NUCLEAR LOCALIZATION SIGNALS; PLASMIDS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; SERUM RESPONSE FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSFECTION;

EID: 47549103094     PISSN: 09697128     EISSN: 14765462     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/gt.2008.83     Document Type: Article

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