Journal article

Profiling gene expression induced by protease activated receptor 2 (PAR2) activation in human kidney cells

JY Suen, B Gardiner, S Grimmond, DP Fairlie

Plos One | PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE | Published : 2010

Abstract

Protease-Activated Receptor-2 (PAR2) has been implicated through genetic knockout mice with cytokine regulation and arthritis development. Many studies have associated PAR2 with inflammatory conditions (arthritis, airways inflammation, IBD) and key events in tumor progression (angiogenesis, metastasis), but they have relied heavily on the use of single agonists to identify physiological roles for PAR2. However such probes are now known not to be highly selective for PAR2, and thus precisely what PAR2 does and what mechanisms of downstream regulation are truly affected remain obscure. Effects of PAR2 activation on gene expression in Human Embryonic Kidney cells (HEK293), a commonly studied ce..

View full abstract

University of Melbourne Researchers

Grants

Awarded by Australian Research Council


Funding Acknowledgements

Research funding is from the National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia (NHMRC569595; www.nhmrc.gov.au) and the Australian Research Council for a Federation Fellowship to DPF (FF0668733; www.arc.gov.au). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.