Epigenetic regulation of vascular smooth muscle cell plasticity in vascular injury, repair, and aging.
Vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMCs) exhibit a remarkable phenotypic spectrum in response to injury, inflammation, metabolic stress, and aging through state changes encoded in chromatin. This review examines how DNA methylation and hydroxymethylation, histone modifiers, chromatin readers, adenosine triphosphate (ATP)-d...