Mammalian Krüppel-like factors in health and diseases

BB McConnell, VW Yang - Physiological reviews, 2010 - journals.physiology.org
The Krüppel-like factor (KLF) family of transcription factors regulates diverse biological
processes that include proliferation, differentiation, growth, development, survival, and …

Protein design: toward functional metalloenzymes

F Yu, VM Cangelosi, ML Zastrow, M Tegoni… - Chemical …, 2014 - ACS Publications
Protein design is a valuable tool for understanding the fundamental factors that dictate
protein structure and function. The field of protein design has seen significant progress over …

Position-dependent function of human sequence-specific transcription factors

SH Duttke, C Guzman, M Chang, NP Delos Santos… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Patterns of transcriptional activity are encoded in our genome through regulatory elements
such as promoters or enhancers that, paradoxically, contain similar assortments of …

MicroRNA: A novel target of curcumin in cancer therapy

H Mirzaei, A Masoudifar, A Sahebkar… - Journal of cellular …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Curcumin is known as a natural dietary polyphenol which is extracted from Curcuma longa
L. It has been shown that curcumin has a variety of pharmacological effects such as …

The leucine zipper: a hypothetical structure common to a new class of DNA binding proteins

WH Landschulz, PF Johnson, SL McKnight - Science, 1988 - science.org
A 30-amino-acid segment of C/EBP, a newly discovered enhancer binding protein, shares
notable sequence similarity with a segment of the cellular Myc transforming protein. Display …

Cigarette smoking and DNA methylation

KWK Lee, Z Pausova - Frontiers in genetics, 2013 - frontiersin.org
DNA methylation is the most studied epigenetic modification, capable of controlling gene
expression in the contexts of normal traits or diseases. It is highly dynamic during early …

[HTML][HTML] Circuitry and dynamics of human transcription factor regulatory networks

S Neph, AB Stergachis, A Reynolds, R Sandstrom… - Cell, 2012 - cell.com
The combinatorial cross-regulation of hundreds of sequence-specific transcription factors
(TFs) defines a regulatory network that underlies cellular identity and function. Here we use …

The protein Id: a negative regulator of helix-loop-helix DNA binding proteins

R Benezra, RL Davis, D Lockshon, DL Turner… - Cell, 1990 - cell.com
We have isolated a cDNA clone encoding a novel helixloophdix (HLH) protein, Id. Id is
missing the basic region adjacent to the HLH domain that is essential for specific DNA …

Transcriptional regulation in mammalian cells by sequence-specific DNA binding proteins

PJ Mitchell, R Tjian - Science, 1989 - science.org
The cloning of genes encoding mammalian DNA binding transcription factors for RNA
polymerase II has provided the opportunity to analyze the structure and function of these …

Inflammation, NF-κB, and chronic diseases: how are they linked?

AB Kunnumakkara, B Shabnam, S Girisa… - Critical Reviews™ in …, 2020 - dl.begellhouse.com
Most chronic diseases, caused by lifestyle factors, appear to be linked to inflammation.
Inflammation is activated mechanistically, and nuclear factor-κB (NF-κB) is a significant …