Prevention of growth arrest‐induced cell death of vascular smooth muscle cells by a product of growth arrest‐specific gene, gas6
- 27 May 1996
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in FEBS Letters
- Vol. 387 (1), 78-80
- https://doi.org/10.1016/0014-5793(96)00395-x
Abstract
We have purified Gas6 as a growth-potentiating factor for vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMCs) [Nakano, T. et al. (1995) J. Biol. Chem. 270, 5702-57051. However, specific production of Gas6 in growth-arrested cells raises an intriguing question as to the physiological function of Gas6. In this study, we found that serum-starved VSMCs secreted some survival factors and depletion of the factors induced cell death of VSMCs. Finally, we demonstrated that cell death was prevented by the addition of Gas6, suggesting that one of the major biological activity of Gas6 is protection of growth-arrested VSMCs from death.This publication has 17 references indexed in Scilit:
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