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In the liver, where arginine is hydrolyzed to form urea and ornithine, the <jats:italic>ASS</jats:italic> gene is highly expressed, and hormones and nutrients constitute the major regulating factors: (a) glucocorticoids, glucagon and insulin, particularly, control the expression of this gene both during development and adult life; (b) dietary protein intake stimulates <jats:italic>ASS</jats:italic> gene expression, with a particular efficiency of specific amino acids like glutamine. In contrast, in NO‐producing cells, where arginine is the direct substrate in the NO synthesis, <jats:italic>ASS</jats:italic> gene is expressed at a low level and in this way, proinflammatory signals constitute the main factors of regulation of the gene expression. In most cases, regulation of <jats:italic>ASS</jats:italic> gene expression is exerted at a transcriptional level, but molecular mechanisms are still poorly understood.</jats:p>","journal":"European Journal of Biochemistry","year":2003,"id":16875,"datarank":12.075374713977835,"base_score":5.786897381366708,"endowment":5.786897381366708,"self_citation_contribution":0.8680346072050062,"citation_network_contribution":11.207340106772829,"self_endowment_contribution":0.8680346072050062,"citer_contribution":11.207340106772829,"corpus_percentile":null,"corpus_rank":null,"citation_count":325,"citer_count":200,"citers_with_citation_signal":200,"citers_with_endowment":200,"datacite_reuse_total":4,"is_dataset":false,"is_dataset_confidence":null,"is_oa":false,"file_count":0,"downloads":0,"has_version_chain":false,"published_date":null,"algorithm_id":"datarank_citation_only_1hop_v6","ranking_scope":"data_only","authors":[{"id":122835,"name":"Carole 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