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Acta1  -  actin, alpha 1, skeletal muscle

Rattus norvegicus

Synonyms: Acta, Actin, alpha skeletal muscle, Alpha-actin-1
 
 
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Disease relevance of Acta1

 

Psychiatry related information on Acta1

  • Although Id mRNA becomes undetectable in adult ventricular myocytes 48 h following isolation in the absence of serum, it can be rapidly reinduced by an alpha-adrenergic agonist, accompanied by increased protein synthesis and the reexpression, in defined media, of the neonatal genes prepro-ANP and skeletal muscle alpha-actin [5].
 

High impact information on Acta1

  • Transient transfection into L8 myoblasts has been used to study the rat alpha-actin gene promoter [6].
  • Dynamics of demethylation and activation of the alpha-actin gene in myoblasts [6].
  • DMSO (2%) inhibits the fusion of myoblasts to form multinucleate myotubes, the normal increases in activity of creatine phosphokinase (CPK) and acetylcholinesterase, and the synthesis of alpha-actin and acetylcholine receptor protein [7].
  • The strong conservation of these sequences suggests that they may have a role in the tissue-specific expression of the skeletal muscle alpha-actin gene [8].
  • Differentiation of muscle cells is characterized morphologically by the acquisition of contractile filaments and characteristic shape changes, and on the molecular level by induction of the expression of several genes, including those for the muscle-specific alpha-actin isoforms [9].
 

Chemical compound and disease context of Acta1

 

Biological context of Acta1

 

Anatomical context of Acta1

 

Associations of Acta1 with chemical compounds

 

Co-localisations of Acta1

 

Regulatory relationships of Acta1

  • In summary, these results suggest a conserved role for CArG A, CArG B, and the TCE in TGF-beta-induced expression of SM alpha-actin in SMCs and non-SMCs that is modified by a complex interplay of positive- and negative-acting cis elements in a cell-specific manner [23].
  • Combined in situ hybridization and immunocytochemistry reveals that most elastin mRNA-expressing cells in the media are alpha-actin-positive smooth muscle cells [24].
  • Culture-induced SM alpha-actin expression was suppressed in the presence of LPS (> 5 ng/ml) and/or IFN gamma (> 1 U/ml) dose-dependently [25].
  • The sequence spanning -894 to +1 of the SM alpha-actin promoter directed high levels of transcription that were attenuated in serum-restricted cells and upregulated upon treatment with serum or endothelin-1 [26].
  • ET-3-induced [3H]leucine incorporation, skeletal alpha-actin mRNA and cell surface area were inhibited by a synthetic ETB receptor antagonist (BQ788) [27].
 

Other interactions of Acta1

  • Acidic FGF (25 ng/ml) produced seven- to eightfold reciprocal changes in MHC expression but, unlike either TGF-beta 1 or basic FGF, inhibited both striated alpha-actin genes by 70-90% [15].
  • In contrast, serum stimulation was shown to increase nonmuscle beta-actin mRNA level, whereas SM alpha-actin mRNA level remained constant [28].
  • These data indicate that both JNKs and p38 participate in regulation of SM- alpha-actin expression [29].
  • We found that regenerating muscle shows that embryonic pattern of alpha-actin mRNAs in the early stage and concluded that the recovery of alpha-skeletal actin mRNA expression to the adult pattern is influenced by innervation, while alpha-cardiac actin mRNA expression is nerve independent [30].
  • Double-labeling with antibodies against proliferating cell nuclear antigen and SM alpha-actin revealed SM alpha-actin-positive filaments in both replicating and resting cells [19].
 

Analytical, diagnostic and therapeutic context of Acta1

References

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