The RhoA guanine nucleotide exchange factor, LARG, mediates ICAM-1-dependent mechanotransduction in endothelial cells to stimulate transendothelial migration

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 192, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 3390-3398

  Lessey Morillon, Elizabeth C ^a   Osborne, Lukas D ^b   Monaghan Benson, Elizabeth ^a   Guilluy, Christophe ^a   O'Brien, E Timothy ^b   Superfine, Richard ^b   Burridge, Keith ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERCELLULAR ADHESION MOLECULE 1; LEUKEMIA ASSOCIATED RHO GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE EXCHANGE FACTOR; RHO GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE EXCHANGE FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEPLETION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; TRANSENDOTHELIAL AND TRANSEPITHELIAL MIGRATION;

BLOTTING, WESTERN; CELLS, CULTURED; CYTOCHALASIN D; CYTOSKELETON; ENDOTHELIAL CELLS; HUMAN UMBILICAL VEIN ENDOTHELIAL CELLS; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTERCELLULAR ADHESION MOLECULE-1; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION, CELLULAR; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; NUCLEIC ACID SYNTHESIS INHIBITORS; RHO GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE EXCHANGE FACTORS; RNA INTERFERENCE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STRESS, MECHANICAL; TRANSENDOTHELIAL AND TRANSEPITHELIAL MIGRATION;

EID: 84897551177     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: 15506606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.1302525     Document Type: Article

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