For example, enterolactone made from flaxseed lignans has been shown to be an estrogen agonist (promoting estrogen production, through increased formation of
transcription factors like ER - alpha and ER - beta), as well as an estrogen antagonist (working against estrogen production, through inhibition of enzymes like estrogen synthetase).
Calling on
transcription factors like NRF - 1 for damage control.
Transcription factors like MYCN work by summoning certain «co-factor» proteins to attach themselves to specific sections of DNA.
«Recent studies have shown that when
transcription factors like MYC are mutated or overabundant, they can have a cancerous effect.
First author Adam Skibinski, M.D. / Ph.D., student at Tufts University School of Medicine and the Sackler School of Graduate Biomedical Sciences at Tufts University, said «We've known for a long time that breast cells can lose their normal identity when they become cancerous, but we are now realizing that normal cells can change their characteristics as well in response to
transcription factors like TAZ.
Not exact matches
Adding seven
transcription factors — proteins that switch on genes — the team then converted the IPSCs into immature HSC -
like cells.
M. J. Bertram et al., Identification of a gene that reverses the immortal phenotype of a subset of cells and is a member of a novel family of
transcription factor -
like genes.
While the process usually proceeds in a one - way direction, artificially inducing the activity of key
transcription factors can reprogram differentiated cells back into a stem -
like state, a discovery honored with the 2012 Nobel prize.
Transcription factors are responsible for either inhibiting or promoting the expression of genes, and master regulatory transcription factors are like transcription factors on steroids: their actions regulate thousands of genes in different ki
Transcription factors are responsible for either inhibiting or promoting the expression of genes, and master regulatory
transcription factors are like transcription factors on steroids: their actions regulate thousands of genes in different ki
transcription factors are
like transcription factors on steroids: their actions regulate thousands of genes in different ki
transcription factors on steroids: their actions regulate thousands of genes in different kinds of cells.
The genes — Oct 3/4, Sox2, c - Myc and Klf4 — are molecular switches called
transcription factors, which activate other genes in series
like a power strip.
They found that the combination of the
transcription factors Brn3a plus Ngn1, or Brn3a plus Ngn2, reprogrammed a significant percentage of the embryonic mouse fibroblasts into what looked — and acted —
like mature DRG - type sensory neurons.
Now, a collaboration between the RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Science (IMS) and other institutions in Japan and Europe have found that in immune cells, simply blocking a
transcription factor that leads to differentiation is sufficient to keep cells in a multipotent stem cell -
like state where they can continue to proliferate and can later differentiate into various cell types.
Toll / IL -1 receptor domain - containing adaptor inducing IFN - β (TRIF) associates with TNF receptor - associated
factor 6 and TANK - binding kinase 1, and activates two distinct
transcription factors, NF - κB and IFN - regulatory
factor - 3, in the Toll -
like receptor signaling.
We recently reported that CD8 (+) T cells responding to innate -
like IL - 12 + IL - 18 stimulation and co-expressing the
transcription factor Eomesodermin (Eomes) and KIR / NKG2A membrane receptors with a memory / EMRA phenotype may represent a new, functionally distinct innate T cell subset in humans.
It has recently been demonstrated that mouse and human fibroblasts can be reprogrammed into an embryonic stem cell -
like state by introducing combinations of four
transcription factors.
The Rel subunit of NF - kappaB -
like transcription factors is a positive and negative regulator of macrophage gene expression: distinct roles for Rel in different macrophage populations.
Insulin -
like growth
factor - I — forkhead box O
transcription factor 3a counteracts high glucose / tumor necrosis
factor - α - mediated neuronal damage: Implications for human immunodeficiency virus encephalitis.
Distinct
transcription factor networks predicate different tumor identities, corresponding to sympathetic noradrenergic or mesenchymal / neural - crest cell
like identities.
Oct - 4 is a
transcription factor which has been reported to be involved in various cancers and is also marker for cancer stem cell
like population [34, 35].
The Wnt target gene encoding the
transcription factor Achaete scute -
like 2 controls the fate of the intestinal stem cell (26).
TCF - 1 is
like an icebreaker ship that initially opens the ice (condensed, closed chromatin) and keeps a path available for other ships (other
transcription factors that work in later stages of development) to steam through the now - open water (unwound chromatin).
This is in accordance with previous reports that decitabine and 5 - azacytidine produce a marked synergistic effect in combination with suberoylanilide hydroxamic acid and romidepsin in T - lymphoma cell lines by modulating cell cycle arrest and apoptosis.26, 27 As a mechanism of action, KMT2D mutations of B - lymphoma cells promote malignant outgrowth by perturbing methylation of H3K4 that affect the JAK - STAT, Toll -
like receptor, or B - cell receptor pathway.28, 29 Here our study indicated that dual treatment with chidamide and decitabine enhanced the interaction of KMT2D with the
transcription factor PU.1, thereby inactivating the H3K4me - associated signaling pathway MAPK, which is constitutively activated in T - cell lymphoma.13, 30,31 The
transcription factor PU.1 is involved in the development of all hematopoietic lineages32 and regulates lymphoid cell growth and transformation.33 Aberrant PU.1 expression promotes acute myeloid leukemia and is related to the pathogenesis of multiple myeloma via the MAPK pathway.34, 35 On the other hand, PU.1 is also shown to interact with chromatin remodeler and DNA methyltransferease to control hematopoiesis and suppress leukemia.36 Our data thus suggested that the combined action of chidamide and decitabine may interfere with the differentiation and / or viability of PTCL - NOS through a PU.1 - dependent gene expression program.
This adaptive program is largely controlled by two proteins: Kelch
like - ECH - associated protein 1 (Keap1) and the
transcription factor NFEL2L2 (Nrf2).
Abbreviations: ASC, apoptosis - associated speck -
like protein containing a caspase - recruitment domain; ATM, adipose - tissue - resident macrophage; BAT, brown adipose tissue; CCR2, CC chemokine receptor 2; CHOP, C / EBP (CCAAT / enhancer - binding protein)- homologous protein; DHA, docosahexaenoic acid; EPA, eicosapentaenoic acid; ER, endoplasmic reticulum; GPCR, G - protein - coupled receptor; HIF, hypoxia - inducible
factor; IFNγ, interferon γ; IKK, inhibitor of nuclear
factor κB kinase; IL, interleukin; IRS - 1, insulin receptor substrate - 1; JNK, c - Jun N - terminal kinase; LDL, low - density lipoprotein; Ldlr, LDL receptor; LXR, liver X receptor; MCP - 1, monocyte chemoattractant protein 1; miRNA, microRNA; mTOR, mammalian target of rapamycin; NAFLD, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease; NF - κB, nuclear
factor κB; NLRP3, NLR (nucleotide - binding - domain - and leucine - rich - repeat - containing) family, pyrin - domain - containing 3; oxLDL, oxidized LDL; PKR, double - stranded RNA - dependent protein kinase; PPAR, peroxisome - proliferator - activated receptor; STAT6, signal transducer and activator of
transcription 6; SVF, stromal vascular fraction; TLR, Toll -
like receptor; TNFα, tumour necrosis
factor α; UPR, unfolded protein response; WAT, white adipose tissue
In vitro, ES cells can generate PrEn -
like cells either in response to LIF withdrawal [24] or through forced expression of the
transcription factors Gata4 or Gata6 [25], [26].
Amphimedon possesses homologues of bilaterian proteins involved in nervous system development (for example, elav - and musashi -
like RNA - binding proteins, neural
transcription factors), pre - and post-synaptic organization (for example, Discs large) 42, endogenous and exogenous signalling (for example, G - protein - coupled receptors (GPCRs)-RRB-, and neuroendocrine secretion, although bilaterian peptide hormones are not detected (Supplementary Note 8.9).
Variant of
transcription factor 7 -
like 2 (TCF7L2) gene confers risk of type 2 diabetes.
Chlamydomonas reinhardtii encodes a single sigma70 -
like factor which likely functions in chloroplast
transcription
Like transcription factors, these genes turn on other stem cell genes and turn off those associated with different cell types.
Clostridium botulinum produces a
transcription factor that can aggregate and self - propagate a prion -
like form, leading to genome - wide changes in gene expression in E. coli, according to a study.
Structure of an MmyB -
like regulator from C. aurantiacus, member of a new
transcription factor family linked to antibiotic metabolism in actinomycetes.
Recently, our lab has discovered that a member of Kruppel -
like family of
transcription factors, KLF9, regulates bortezomib - induced apoptosis in MM cells.
«There are multiple interactive pathways and molecular mechanisms by which CR (calorie restriction) and IF (intermittent fasting) benefit neurons including those involving insulin -
like signaling, FoxO
transcription factors, sirtuins and peroxisome proliferator - activated receptors.
Ortiz, Lourdes, et al. «Transcriptional control of the forkhead thyroid
transcription factor TTF - 2 by thyrotropin, insulin, and insulin -
like growth
factor I.» Journal of Biological Chemistry 272.37 (1997): 23334 - 23339.
The incredible ability of curcumin to promote various pathways
like gene
transcription factors, inflammatory cytokine pathways and various growth
factors means that it has been studied for the many potential benefits for skin conditions
like psoriasis, skin cancers, dermatitis, acne, wound healing and even keloid scars.
Insulin inhibits
transcription of the human gene for insulin -
like growth
factor - binding protein - 1.