Regulation of nephrin gene by the Ets transcription factor, GA-binding protein

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 846-855

  Ristola, Mervi ^a   Arpiainen, Satu ^b   Shimokawa, Toshibumi ^c   Ra, Chisei ^c   Tienari, Jukka ^a,d   Saleem, Moin A ^e   Holthöfer, Harry ^a,b   Lehtonen, Sanna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b DUBLIN CITY UNIVERSITY   (Ireland)

^c NIHON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^d HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

nephrin; podocyte; transcription factor; transcriptional regulation

Indexed keywords

CASPASE 3; GA BINDING PROTEIN; NEPHRIN; SHORT HAIRPIN RNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; ENZYME ACTIVATION; GABP ALPHA GENE; GENE; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; GENE TARGETING; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; NONHUMAN; NPHS1 GENE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PODOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RAT; REPORTER GENE; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CASPASE 3; CELLS, CULTURED; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; ENZYME ACTIVATION; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GA-BINDING PROTEIN TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; MALE; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; PODOCYTES; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTEIN BINDING; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID;

EID: 84875994774     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: 14602385     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfs482     Document Type: Article

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