Transforming growth factors beta (TGF-β) are vital in embryonic development and the regulation of many fundamental cellular functions in the human body. By binding and activating specific [...]
Researchers of the University of Edinburgh have identified mutations in BRD4 as the disease-causing genetic defect in patients with a Cornelia-de-Lange-like condition and have thus provided new [...]
SELENBP1 has been reported to be involved in the development of several cancers, although its precise function has remained elusive until now. Now scientists have uncovered that autosomal [...]
As a transcription factor, the gene product of NFE2L2, the nuclear factor-erythroid 2-related factor 2 (NRF2), regulates the expression of a large number of genes including specifically various [...]
The PRKCE gene encodes protein kinase C-epsilon, a member of a large protein kinase family of enzymes that activate important proteins and are involved in cellular functions as for example [...]
MDM2 encodes the murine double minute 2 protein, an E3 ubiquitin ligase and a principal regulator of the p53 tumor suppressor, to which it is linked in a negative feedback loop. P53 plays an [...]
The so-called KEOPS protein complex has been implicated in a range of functions. Among others, it regulates a chemical modification of tRNA which ensures accurate translation, and it also acts in [...]
The KCNQ gene family encodes potassium channel proteins, which are essential for the transport of potassium ions across the cell membrane. It comprises five genes, and mutations in four of these [...]
Mutations of the CD55 gene have been identified by an international group of scientists as the cause of a new autosomal recessively inherited syndrome consisting of early-onset protein-losing [...]
YY1 encodes the yin and yang 1 protein, a well-known zinc-finger transcription factor, whose name reflects its dual function: it has both activating and repressing effects on the transcription of [...]
