Down-regulation of replication factor C-40 (RFC40) causes chromosomal missegregation in neonatal and hypertrophic adult rat cardiac myocytes.

BACKGROUND: Adult mammalian cardiac myocytes are generally assumed to be terminally differentiated; nonetheless, a small fraction of cardiac myocytes have been shown to replicate during ventricular remodeling. However, the expression of Replication Factor C (RFC; RFC140/40/38/37/36) and DNA polymera...

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Main Authors: Hirotaka Ata, Deepa Shrestha, Masahiko Oka, Rikuo Ochi, Chian Ju Jong, Sarah Gebb, John Benjamin, Stephen Schaffer, Holly H Hobart, James Downey, Ivan McMurtry, Rakhee Gupte
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3375256?pdf=render