Influence of endothelial Cx40 under atheroprone and atheroprotective flow
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ORGANISM(S): Mus musculus
PROVIDER: GSE118717 | GEO | 2019/10/24
REPOSITORIES: GEO
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For KLF gain-of-function, pulmonary artery endothelial cells (PAEC) were transduced with adenoviral vectors encoding a constitutively active mutant of MEK5 (caMEK5), or GFP as control. 90h post-transduction cells were lysed and AP was performed using antibodies targeting either KLF (sc166238, Santa Cruz Biotechnology) or FLAG (F7425, Millipore Sigma).
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GK: GFP-tranduced controls using anti-KLF antibodies for AP.
GF: GFP-tranduced controls using anti-FLAG antibodies for AP.
KK: caMEK5-transduced cells with anti-KLF antibodies for AP.
KF: caMEK5-tranduced cells with anti-FLAG antibodies for AP.
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