Research Article

Nε-Carboxymethyl-Lysine Negatively Regulates Foam Cell Migration via the Vav1/Rac1 Pathway

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CML increase the phosphorylation of Vav1 in macrophage-derived foam cells, inhibiting Vav1 expression which reduces the activity of Rac1 but has no change on RhoA activity. (a) Phosphorylation of Vav1 was investigated by Western blot. (b) Vav1 siRNA were used to interrupt the expression of Vav1; the effect of Vav1 siRNA was investigated by Western blot. (c) The activity of GTP-bound GTPase was detected by G-Lisa; values are presented as the from three independent experiments. .
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