Upstream Stimulatory Factors
"Upstream Stimulatory Factors" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Ubiquitously expressed basic HELIX-LOOP-HELIX MOTIF transcription factors. They bind CANNTG sequences in the promoters of a variety of GENES involved in carbohydrate and lipid metabolism.
| Descriptor ID |
D051720
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D12.776.260.103.937 D12.776.930.125.937
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| Concept/Terms |
Upstream Stimulatory Factors- Upstream Stimulatory Factors
- USF Transcription Factors
- Helix-Loop-Helix Activator USF
- Helix Loop Helix Activator USF
- USF, Helix-Loop-Helix Activator
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| 2005 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2006 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2008 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2010 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Upstream Stimulatory Factors" by people in Profiles.
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Jiang S, Galindo MR, Jarrett HW. Purification and identification of a transcription factor, USF-2, binding to E-box element in the promoter of human telomerase reverse transcriptase (hTERT). Proteomics. 2010 Jan; 10(2):203-11.
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Hermann BP, Hornbaker K, Rice DA, Sawadogo M, Heckert LL. In vivo regulation of follicle-stimulating hormone receptor by the transcription factors upstream stimulatory factor 1 and upstream stimulatory factor 2 is cell specific. Endocrinology. 2008 Oct; 149(10):5297-306.
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Hermann BP, Heckert LL. Transcriptional regulation of the FSH receptor: new perspectives. Mol Cell Endocrinol. 2007 Jan 02; 260-262:100-8.
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Sellak H, Choi C, Browner N, Lincoln TM. Upstream stimulatory factors (USF-1/USF-2) regulate human cGMP-dependent protein kinase I gene expression in vascular smooth muscle cells. J Biol Chem. 2005 May 06; 280(18):18425-33.
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Shrivastava A, Saleque S, Kalpana GV, Artandi S, Goff SP, Calame K. Inhibition of transcriptional regulator Yin-Yang-1 by association with c-Myc. Science. 1993 Dec 17; 262(5141):1889-92.