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TCF12
Introduction
Transcription factor 12 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the TCF12 gene.[1][2]
The protein encoded by this gene is a member of the basic helix-loop-helix (bHLH) E-protein family that recognizes the consensus binding site (E-box) CANNTG. This encoded protein is expressed in many tissues, among them skeletal muscle, thymus, B- and T-cells, and may participate in regulating lineage-specific gene expression through the formation of heterodimers with other bHLH E-proteins. Several alternatively spliced transcript variants of this gene have been described, but the full-length nature of some of these variants has not been determined.[2]
Mutations in this gene have been associated to cases of coronal craniosynostosis (doi: 10.1038/ng.2531)
References
References
- ↑ Zhang Y, Babin J, Feldhaus AL, Singh H, Sharp PA, Bina M (Oct 1991). “HTF4: a new human helix-loop-helix protein”. Nucleic Acids Res. 19 (16): 4555. doi:10.1093/nar/19.16.4555. PMC 328652. PMID 1886779.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 “Entrez Gene: TCF12 transcription factor 12 (HTF4, helix-loop-helix transcription factors 4)”.
Further reading
Further reading
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- Hu JS, Olson EN, Kingston RE (1992). “HEB, a helix-loop-helix protein related to E2A and ITF2 that can modulate the DNA-binding ability of myogenic regulatory factors”. Mol. Cell. Biol. 12 (3): 1031–42. PMC 369535. PMID 1312219.
- Zhang Y, Bina M (1992). “The nucleotide sequence of the human transcription factor HTF4a cDNA”. DNA Seq. 2 (6): 397–403. doi:10.3109/10425179209020819. PMID 1446075.
- Zhang Y, Doyle K, Bina M (1992). “Interactions of HTF4 with E-box motifs in the long terminal repeat of human immunodeficiency virus type 1”. J. Virol. 66 (9): 5631–4. PMC 289128. PMID 1501295.
- Sommer L, Hagenbüchle O, Wellauer PK, Strubin M (1992). “Nuclear targeting of the transcription factor PTF1 is mediated by a protein subunit that does not bind to the PTF1 cognate sequence”. Cell. 67 (5): 987–94. doi:10.1016/0092-8674(91)90371-5. PMID 1720355.
- Zhang Y, Flejter WL, Barcroft CL, et al. (1995). “Localization of the human HTF4 transcription factors 4 gene (TCF12) to chromosome 15q21”. Cytogenet. Cell Genet. 68 (3–4): 235–8. doi:10.1159/000133921. PMID 7842744.
- Doyle K, Zhang Y, Baer R, Bina M (1994). “Distinguishable patterns of protein-DNA interactions involving complexes of basic helix-loop-helix proteins”. J. Biol. Chem. 269 (16): 12099–105. PMID 8163514.
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- Goldfarb AN, Lewandowska K, Pennell CA (1998). “Identification of a highly conserved module in E proteins required for in vivo helix-loop-helix dimerization”. J. Biol. Chem. 273 (5): 2866–73. doi:10.1074/jbc.273.5.2866. PMID 9446597.
- Massari ME, Rivera RR, Voland JR, et al. (1998). “Characterization of ABF-1, a novel basic helix-loop-helix transcription factor expressed in activated B lymphocytes”. Mol. Cell. Biol. 18 (6): 3130–9. PMC 108895. PMID 9584154.
- Adell T, Gómez-Cuadrado A, Skoudy A, et al. (2000). “Role of the basic helix-loop-helix transcription factor p48 in the differentiation phenotype of exocrine pancreas cancer cells”. Cell Growth Differ. 11 (3): 137–47. PMID 10768861.
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- Knöfler M, Meinhardt G, Bauer S, et al. (2002). “Human Hand1 basic helix-loop-helix (bHLH) protein: extra-embryonic expression pattern, interaction partners and identification of its transcriptional repressor domains”. Biochem. J. 361 (Pt 3): 641–51. doi:10.1042/0264-6021:3610641. PMC 1222348. PMID 11802795.
- Strausberg RL, Feingold EA, Grouse LH, et al. (2003). “Generation and initial analysis of more than 15,000 full-length human and mouse cDNA sequences”. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 99 (26): 16899–903. doi:10.1073/pnas.242603899. PMC 139241. PMID 12477932.
- Tremblay M, Herblot S, Lecuyer E, Hoang T (2003). “Regulation of pT alpha gene expression by a dosage of E2A, HEB, and SCL”. J. Biol. Chem. 278 (15): 12680–7. doi:10.1074/jbc.M209870200. PMID 12566462.