Regulation of connective tissue growth factor (CTGF/CCN2) gene transcription and mRNA stability in smooth muscle cells: Involvement of RhoA GTPase and p38 MAP kinase and sensitivity to actin dynamics

European Journal of Biochemistry

Volumn 271, Issue 22, 2004, Pages 4436-4450

  Chowdhury, Ibrul ^a,c   Chaqour, Brahim ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b SUNY DOWNSTATE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Actin cytoskeleton; CTGF CCN2; p38 MAP kinase; Rho GTPase; Smooth muscle cells

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; ANISOMYCIN; COLLAGEN; F ACTIN; G ACTIN; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE P38; MONOMER; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3 KINASE; RHOA GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; RHOA GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; SPHINGOSINE 1 PHOSPHATE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACTIN FILAMENT; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CCN2 GENE; CELL GROWTH; COLLAGEN SYNTHESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CTGF GENE; CYTOSKELETON; DRUG EFFECT; ENZYME ACTIVATION; GENE; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE INDUCTION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; IMMEDIATE EARLY GENE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN POLYMERIZATION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; RNA STABILITY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

1-PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3-KINASE; ACTINS; ANIMALS; CATTLE; CELLS, CULTURED; CYTOTOXINS; ENZYME INHIBITORS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; IMMEDIATE-EARLY PROTEINS; INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MAP KINASE SIGNALING SYSTEM; MYOCYTES, SMOOTH MUSCLE; P38 MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASES; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS INHIBITORS; RHOA GTP-BINDING PROTEIN; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; URINARY BLADDER;

ANIMALIA; BOVINAE; TRIXIS;

EID: 9644255879     PISSN: 00142956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-1033.2004.04382.x     Document Type: Article

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