Phosphorylation of the twist1-family basic helix-loop-helix transcription factors is involved in pathological cardiac remodeling

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Lu, Shuangshuang ^a   Nie, Junwei ^a   Luan, Qing ^a   Feng, Qiuting ^a   Xiao, Qi ^a   Chang, Zai ^a   Shan, Congjia ^a   Hess, Daniel ^b   Hemmings, Brian A ^b   Yang, Zhongzhou ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b FRIEDRICH MIESCHER INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASIC HELIX LOOP HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; PROTEIN HAND1; PROTEIN KINASE B; PROTEIN TWIST1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; HAND1 PROTEIN, MOUSE; HYBRID PROTEIN; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR TWIST; TWIST1 PROTEIN, HUMAN; TWIST1 PROTEIN, MOUSE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME SUBSTRATE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE FUNCTION; HEART DISEASE; HEART FAILURE; HEART MUSCLE CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MOUSE; MUTANT; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PATHOLOGICAL CARDIAC REMODELING; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; REPORTER GENE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SUDDEN DEATH; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; UPREGULATION; ANIMAL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; GENETICS; HEART MUSCLE; HEART VENTRICLE REMODELING; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MUTATION; PATHOLOGY; PHOSPHORYLATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PLASMID;

MUS MUSCULUS;

ANIMALS; BASIC HELIX-LOOP-HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MUTATION; MYOCARDIUM; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PHOSPHORYLATION; PLASMIDS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TWIST TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; VENTRICULAR REMODELING;

EID: 79955751669     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0019251     Document Type: Article

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