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TFAP4
Introduction
Transcription factor AP-4 (activating enhancer binding protein 4), also known as TFAP4, is a protein which in humans is encoded by the TFAP4 gene.[1]
Function
Function
Transcription factor AP4 is a member of the basic helix-loop-helix (bHLH) transcription factors, which bind to the E-box sequence in the promoters of their target genes. AP-4 has been shown to act both as a repressor and an activator for different target genes.
References
References
Further reading
Further reading
- Hu YF, Lüscher B, Admon A, et al. (1991). “Transcription factor AP-4 contains multiple dimerization domains that regulate dimer specificity”. Genes Dev. 4 (10): 1741–52. doi:10.1101/gad.4.10.1741. PMID 2123466.
- Mermod N, Williams TJ, Tjian R (1988). “Enhancer binding factors AP-4 and AP-1 act in concert to activate SV40 late transcription in vitro”. Nature. 332 (6164): 557–61. doi:10.1038/332557a0. PMID 2833704.
- Ou SH, Garcia-MartÃnez LF, Paulssen EJ, Gaynor RB (1994). “Role of flanking E box motifs in human immunodeficiency virus type 1 TATA element function”. J. Virol. 68 (11): 7188–99. PMC 237158. PMID 7933101.
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- Petersenn S, Rasch AC, Heyens M, Schulte HM (1998). “Structure and regulation of the human growth hormone-releasing hormone receptor gene”. Mol. Endocrinol. 12 (2): 233–47. doi:10.1210/me.12.2.233. PMID 9482665.
- King-Jones K, Korge G, Lehmann M (1999). “The helix-loop-helix proteins dAP-4 and daughterless bind both in vitro and in vivo to SEBP3 sites required for transcriptional activation of the Drosophila gene Sgs-4”. J. Mol. Biol. 291 (1): 71–82. doi:10.1006/jmbi.1999.2963. PMID 10438607.
- 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.
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- Gerhard DS, Wagner L, Feingold EA, et al. (2004). “The Status, Quality, and Expansion of the NIH Full-Length cDNA Project: The Mammalian Gene Collection (MGC)”. Genome Res. 14 (10B): 2121–7. doi:10.1101/gr.2596504. PMC 528928. PMID 15489334.
- Martin J, Han C, Gordon LA, et al. (2005). “The sequence and analysis of duplication-rich human chromosome 16”. Nature. 432 (7020): 988–94. doi:10.1038/nature03187. PMID 15616553.
- Olsen JV, Blagoev B, Gnad F, et al. (2006). “Global, in vivo, and site-specific phosphorylation dynamics in signaling networks”. Cell. 127 (3): 635–48. doi:10.1016/j.cell.2006.09.026. PMID 17081983.
External links
External links
- TFAP4+protein,+human at the US National Library of Medicine Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)
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