Transcription Factors

"Transcription Factors" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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Endogenous substances, usually proteins, which are effective in the initiation, stimulation, or termination of the genetic transcription process.

Descriptor ID	D014157
MeSH Number(s)	D12.776.930
Concept/Terms	Transcription Factors Transcription Factors Factors, Transcription Transcription Factor Factor, Transcription

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Chemicals and Drugs [D]
Amino Acids, Peptides, and Proteins [D12]
Proteins [D12.776]
Transcription Factors [D12.776.930]

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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Transcription Factors" by people in this website by year, and whether "Transcription Factors" was a major or minor topic of these publications.

Bar chart showing 557 publications over 30 distinct years, with a maximum of 30 publications in 2010 and 2018

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Year	Major Topic	Minor Topic	Total
1996	6	1	7
1997	4	1	5
1998	12	2	14
1999	9	0	9
2000	8	1	9
2001	12	11	23
2002	9	11	20
2003	21	7	28
2004	15	14	29
2005	22	6	28
2006	10	8	18
2007	10	7	17
2008	14	9	23
2009	20	8	28
2010	19	11	30
2011	13	10	23
2012	16	8	24
2013	9	11	20
2014	10	14	24
2015	15	10	25
2016	9	3	12
2017	4	8	12
2018	12	18	30
2019	12	5	17
2020	6	9	15
2021	5	9	14
2022	5	15	20
2023	6	14	20
2024	1	6	7
2025	4	2	6

Below are the most recent publications written about "Transcription Factors" by people in Profiles.

Montes-Rodr?guez IM, Centeno-Girona H, P?rez-M?rtir SV, Rivera N, Cruz-Correa M. Actionable Genes and Carcinogenic Pathways for Gastric Cancer in Latinos. Cancer Med. 2025 Sep; 14(17):e71216.

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Holmlund H, Coul?e M, Yamauchi Y, Yarbabaeva B, Tekayev M, Garcia IR, Feudjio OU, de la Iglesia A, Larcombe L, Ellis PJI, Cocquet J, Ward MA. Large-scale transcriptomic analyses reveal downstream target genes of ZFY1 and ZFY2 transcription factors in male germ cells. Cell Death Differ. 2026 Feb; 33(2):392-410.

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Sofowora I, McCarthy P, Wachira J. Regulation of the promoter for capsular polysaccharide synthesis in Neisseria meningitidis serogroup B by HTH_XRE family transcription factor. Microbiol Spectr. 2025 Jun 03; 13(6):e0330124.

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Brooks EP, Casey MR, Wells KL, Liu TY, Van Orman M, Sussel L. NKX2.2 and KLF4 cooperate to regulate a-cell identity. Genes Dev. 2025 Feb 03; 39(3-4):242-260.

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Yoon JH, Kim JK, Eun JW, Ashktorab H, Smoot DT, Nam SW, Park WS. NKX6.3 modulation of mitotic dynamics and genomic stability in gastric carcinogenesis. Cell Commun Signal. 2025 Jan 20; 23(1):35.

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Gao Z, Su Y, Jiao G, Lou Z, Chang L, Yu R, Xu C, Han X, Wang Z, Li J, Deng XW, He H. Cell-Type Specific miRNA Regulatory Network Responses to ABA Stress Revealed by Time Series Transcriptional Atlases in Arabidopsis. Adv Sci (Weinh). 2025 Mar; 12(9):e2415083.

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Williams J, Regedanz E, Lucinda N, Nava Fereira AR, Lacatus G, Berger M, O'Connell N, Coursey T, Ruan J, Bisaro DM, Sunter G. Mutation of the conserved late element in geminivirus CP promoters abolishes Arabidopsis TCP24 transcription factor binding and decreases H3K27me3 levels on viral chromatin. PLoS Pathog. 2024 Jul; 20(7):e1012399.

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Yoshida S, Tsuneoka Y, Tsukada T, Nakakura T, Kawamura A, Kai W, Yoshida K. Primary Cilia are Required for Cell-Type Determination and Angiogenesis in Pituitary Development. Endocrinology. 2024 Jul 01; 165(8).

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Masuda A, Nishida K, Ajima R, Saga Y, Bakhtan M, Klar A, Hirata T, Zhu Y. A global gene regulatory program and its region-specific regulator partition neurons into commissural and ipsilateral projection types. Sci Adv. 2024 05 24; 10(21):eadk2149.

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Xia WF, Zheng XL, Liu WY, Huang YT, Wen CJ, Zhou HH, Wu QC, Wu LX. Romidepsin exhibits anti-esophageal squamous cell carcinoma activity through the DDIT4-mTORC1 pathway. Cancer Gene Ther. 2024 May; 31(5):778-789.

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