CArG elements control smooth muscle subtype–specific expression of smooth muscle myosin in vivo
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The smooth muscle myosin heavy chain gene exhibits smooth muscle subtype-selective modular regulation in vivo.
Previous studies in our laboratory demonstrated that the transgene consisting of the -4.2 to +11.6 kilobase (kb) region of the smooth muscle (SM) myosin heavy chain (MHC) gene was expressed in virtually all SM tissue types in vivo in transgenic mice and that the multiple CArG elements within this region were differentially required in SMC subtypes, implying that the SM-MHC gene was controlled b...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Clinical Investigation
سال: 2001
ISSN: 0021-9738
DOI: 10.1172/jci11385