Synergistic roles of scleraxis and Smads in the regulation of collagen 1α2 gene expression

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Molecular Cell Research

Volumn 1823, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1936-1944

  Bagchi, Rushita A ^a   Czubryt, Michael P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

BHLH transcription factor; Cardiac fibroblast; Collagen; Fibrosis; Gene expression

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN 1ALPHA2; COLLAGEN TYPE 1; LUCIFERASE; SMAD PROTEIN; SMAD3 PROTEIN; SMAD7 PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SCLERAXIS; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; COLLAGEN SYNTHESIS; E BOX ELEMENT; FIBROBLAST; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MOUSE; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; UPREGULATION;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BASIC HELIX-LOOP-HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; COLLAGEN TYPE I; E-BOX ELEMENTS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES, DOMINANT; HUMANS; MICE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; NIH 3T3 CELLS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTEIN BINDING; RATS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SMAD PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ACTIVATION;

EID: 84864959226     PISSN: 01674889     EISSN: 18792596     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbamcr.2012.07.002     Document Type: Article

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