Insulin gene is a target in activin receptor-like kinase 7 signaling pathway in pancreatic β-cells

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

Volumn 377, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 867-872

  Watanabe, Rie ^a,b   Shen, Zhen Ping ^a   Tsuda, Kinsuke ^c   Yamada, Yuichiro ^a,d  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d AKITA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

ALK7; Insulin promoter; Pancreatic cell; PDX 1; Smads

Indexed keywords

ACTIVIN A; ACTIVIN RECEPTOR LIKE KINASE 7; INSULIN; MYELOPID; PROTEIN KINASE; PROTEIN NODAL; SMAD2 PROTEIN; SMAD3 PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PDX 1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL STRAIN COS7; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMAN; INSULIN RELEASE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PANCREAS ISLET BETA CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

1-PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3-KINASE; ACTIVIN RECEPTORS, TYPE I; ACTIVINS; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL LINE; DOGS; GUINEA PIGS; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; INSULIN; INSULIN-SECRETING CELLS; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NODAL PROTEIN; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RATS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SMAD2 PROTEIN; SMAD3 PROTEIN; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ACTIVATION;

EID: 56049114635     PISSN: 0006291X     EISSN: 10902104     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2008.10.074     Document Type: Article

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