The short and long of noncoding sequences in the control of vascular cell phenotypes

Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences

Volumn 72, Issue 18, 2015, Pages 3457-3488

  Miano, Joseph M ^a   Long, Xiaochun ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY   (United States)

^b ALBANY MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Differentiation; Endothelial cell; Long noncoding RNA; microRNA; Smooth muscle cell; Transcription factor binding site

Indexed keywords

LONG UNTRANSLATED RNA; MICRORNA; MYOCARDIN; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3,4,5 TRISPHOSPHATE 3 PHOSPHATASE; SERUM RESPONSE FACTOR; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; STEM CELL FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR ETS; TRANSCRIPTOME; SMALL UNTRANSLATED RNA;

BINDING SITE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; HUMAN; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REVIEW; RNA SEQUENCE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR BINDING SITE; VASCULAR DISEASE; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIUM; VASCULAR SMOOTH MUSCLE CELL; ANIMAL; CYTOLOGY; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; GENETICS; SMOOTH MUSCLE CELL; VASCULAR SMOOTH MUSCLE;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; ENDOTHELIAL CELLS; HUMANS; MUSCLE, SMOOTH, VASCULAR; MYOCYTES, SMOOTH MUSCLE; PHENOTYPE; RNA, LONG NONCODING; RNA, SMALL UNTRANSLATED;

EID: 84940467335     PISSN: 1420682X     EISSN: 14209071     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00018-015-1936-9     Document Type: Review

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