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Erschienen in: Current Atherosclerosis Reports 3/2011

01.06.2011

Atherosclerosis: An Epigenetic Balancing Act that Goes Wrong

verfasst von: Gertrud Lund, Silvio Zaina

Erschienen in: Current Atherosclerosis Reports | Ausgabe 3/2011

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Abstract

Increasing evidence points to dietary lipids and their derivates as dynamic modulators of pro- or anti-inflammatory gene expression pathways via their ability to interact with nuclear receptors that are central to the regulation of numerous biological functions, including lipid metabolism, inflammatory mediator production, and vascular homeostasis. The biological effects of these receptors are the result of a finely tuned equilibrium between gene activation and repression, resulting from their ability to switch between chromatin-remodelling co-repressor and co-activator partners. The aim of this review is to discuss the concept that selected dietary components induce an atherosclerotic cellular phenotype, at least in part, by imposing epigenetic marks that shift the physiologic program of differential gene activation and repression. Aberrant epigenetic marks are seeded in promoter sequences as well as in intragenic sequences where they might regulate transcript splicing.
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Metadaten
Titel
Atherosclerosis: An Epigenetic Balancing Act that Goes Wrong
verfasst von
Gertrud Lund
Silvio Zaina
Publikationsdatum
01.06.2011
Verlag
Current Science Inc.
Erschienen in
Current Atherosclerosis Reports / Ausgabe 3/2011
Print ISSN: 1523-3804
Elektronische ISSN: 1534-6242
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11883-011-0174-3

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