Gene expression in fibroblasts and fibrosis: involvement in cardiac hypertrophy

I Manabe, T Shindo, R Nagai - Circulation research, 2002 - Am Heart Assoc
Structural remodeling of the ventricular wall is a key determinant of clinical outcome in heart
disease. Such remodeling involves the production and destruction of extracellular matrix …

Role of Kruppel-like transcription factors in endothelial biology

GB Atkins, MK Jain - Circulation research, 2007 - Am Heart Assoc
Krüppel-like factors are members of the zinc finger family of transcription factors that have
been implicated as playing key roles in regulating cellular differentiation and tissue …

Krüppel-like factors: three fingers in many pies

JJ Bieker - Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2001 - ASBMB
Krüppel-like factors (KLFs) 1 are DNA-binding transcriptional regulators that play diverse
roles during differentiation and development. They form a subset of the broad class of …

Krüppel-like transcription factors: a functional family

R Pearson, J Fleetwood, S Eaton, M Crossley… - The international journal …, 2008 - Elsevier
The Krüppel-like factor (Klfs) family of gene regulatory proteins are transcription factors
implicated in many biological processes, including proliferation, apoptosis, differentiation …

Kruppel-like factor 4 regulates endothelial inflammation

A Hamik, Z Lin, A Kumar, M Balcells, S Sinha… - Journal of Biological …, 2007 - ASBMB
The vascular endothelium plays a critical role in vascular homeostasis. Inflammatory
cytokines and non-laminar blood flow induce endothelial dysfunction and confer a pro …

[HTML][HTML] The biology of the mammalian Krüppel-like family of transcription factors

DT Dang, J Pevsner, VW Yang - The international journal of biochemistry & …, 2000 - Elsevier
Recent advances in molecular cloning have led to the identification of a large number of
mammalian zinc finger-containing transcription factors that exhibit homology to the …

Endothelial KLF2 links local arterial shear stress levels to the expression of vascular tone-regulating genes

RJ Dekker, JV Van Thienen, J Rohlena… - The American journal of …, 2005 - Elsevier
Lung Krüppel-like factor (LKLF/KLF2) is an endothelial transcription factor that is crucially
involved in murine vasculogenesis and is specifically regulated by flow in vitro. We now …

Kruppel-like factor 2 (KLF2) regulates endothelial thrombotic function

Z Lin, A Kumar, S SenBanerjee, K Staniszewski… - Circulation …, 2005 - Am Heart Assoc
The vascular endothelium maintains blood fluidity by inhibiting blood coagulation, inhibiting
platelet aggregation, and promoting fibrinolysis. Endothelial cells lose these …

Transcriptional control of endothelial cell development

S De Val, BL Black - Developmental cell, 2009 - cell.com
The transcription factors that regulate endothelial cell development have been a focus of
active research for several years, and many players in the endothelial transcriptional …

[HTML][HTML] Mammalian SP/KLF transcription factors: bring in the family

G Suske, E Bruford, S Philipsen - Genomics, 2005 - Elsevier
The advent of the genome projects has provided new avenues to explore the question of
how DNA sequence information is used appropriately by mammalian cells. Regulation of …