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Emerging roles of A-kinase anchoring proteins in cardiovascular pathophysiology.
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Emerging roles of A-kinase anchoring proteins in cardiovascular pathophysiology.

  • Diviani D Département de Pharmacologie et de Toxicologie, Faculté de Biologie et de Médecine, Lausanne 1005, Switzerland. Electronic address: Dario.diviani@unil.ch.
  • Reggi E Département de Pharmacologie et de Toxicologie, Faculté de Biologie et de Médecine, Lausanne 1005, Switzerland.
  • Arambasic M Département de Pharmacologie et de Toxicologie, Faculté de Biologie et de Médecine, Lausanne 1005, Switzerland.
  • Caso S Département de Pharmacologie et de Toxicologie, Faculté de Biologie et de Médecine, Lausanne 1005, Switzerland.
  • Maric D Département de Pharmacologie et de Toxicologie, Faculté de Biologie et de Médecine, Lausanne 1005, Switzerland.
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  • 2015-12-09
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  • Biochimica et biophysica acta. - 2016
A kinase anchoring protein (AKAP)
Cardiac remodeling
Cardiomyocyte
Protein kinase A (PKA)
Signaling
Vascular smooth muscle cells
A Kinase Anchor Proteins
Animals
Blood Pressure
Cyclic AMP-Dependent Protein Kinases
Heart Failure
Humans
Muscle, Smooth, Vascular
Myocytes, Cardiac
Myocytes, Smooth Muscle
Signal Transduction
Vascular Remodeling
Ventricular Remodeling
English Heart and blood vessels ensure adequate perfusion of peripheral organs with blood and nutrients. Alteration of the homeostatic functions of the cardiovascular system can cause hypertension, atherosclerosis, and coronary artery disease leading to heart injury and failure. A-kinase anchoring proteins (AKAPs) constitute a family of scaffolding proteins that are crucially involved in modulating the function of the cardiovascular system both under physiological and pathological conditions. AKAPs assemble multifunctional signaling complexes that ensure correct targeting of the cAMP-dependent protein kinase (PKA) as well as other signaling enzymes to precise subcellular compartments. This allows local regulation of specific effector proteins that control the function of vascular and cardiac cells. This review will focus on recent advances illustrating the role of AKAPs in cardiovascular pathophysiology. The accent will be mainly placed on the molecular events linked to the control of vascular integrity and blood pressure as well as on the cardiac remodeling process associated with heart failure. This article is part of a Special Issue entitled: Cardiomyocyte Biology: Integration of Developmental and Environmental Cues in the Heart edited by Marcus Schaub and Hughes Abriel.
Language
  • English
Open access status
bronze
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https://sonar.ch/global/documents/257247
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