RhoJ is an endothelial cell-restricted Rho GTPase that mediates vascular morphogenesis and is regulated by the transcription factor ERG

Blood

Volumn 118, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1145-1153

  Yuan, Lei ^a   Sacharidou, Anastasia ^b   Stratman, Amber N ^b   Le Bras, Alexandra ^a   Zwiers, Peter J ^c   Spokes, Katherine ^a   Bhasin, Manoj ^a   Shih, Shou Ching ^a   Nagy, Janice A ^a   Molema, Grietje ^c   Aird, William C ^a   Davis, George E ^b   Oettgen, Peter ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b University of Missouri   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN; LUCIFERASE; PROTEIN CDC42; RAC1 PROTEIN; RHO GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; RHOA GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR ERG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CELL CULTURE; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HEART; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LASER CAPTURE MICRODISSECTION; LIVER; MORPHOGENESIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 79960991368     PISSN: 00064971     EISSN: 15280020     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1182/blood-2010-10-315275     Document Type: Article

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