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PREB

Prolactin regulatory element-binding protein is a protein that in humans is encoded by the PREB gene.[1][2][3]

This gene encodes a protein that specifically binds to a Pit1-binding element of the prolactin (PRL) promoter. This protein may act as a transcriptional regulator and is thought to be involved in some of the developmental abnormalities observed in patients with partial trisomy 2p. This gene overlaps the abhydrolase domain containing 1 (ABHD1) gene on the opposite strand.[3]

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References

  1. Fliss MS, Hinkle PM, Bancroft C (May 1999). “Expression cloning and characterization of PREB (prolactin regulatory element binding), a novel WD motif DNA-binding protein with a capacity to regulate prolactin promoter activity”. Mol Endocrinol. 13 (4): 644–657. doi:10.1210/me.13.4.644. PMID 10194769.
  2. Edgar AJ (Jul 2003). “The gene structure and expression of human ABHD1: overlapping polyadenylation signal sequence with Sec12”. BMC Genomics. 4: 18. doi:10.1186/1471-2164-4-18. PMC 156608. PMID 12735795.
  3. 3.0 3.1 “Entrez Gene: PREB prolactin regulatory element binding”.
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