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ArticleJournal of interferon & cytokine research : the official journal of the International Society for Interferon and Cytokine Research2008

Bioinformatic analysis reveals cRel as a regulator of a subset of interferon-stimulated genes.

Lai Wei, Meiyun Fan, Lijing Xu, Kevin Heinrich, Michael W Berry, Ramin Homayouni, Lawrence M Pfeffer

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Article in Journal of interferon & cytokine research : the official journal of the International Society for Interferon and Cytokine Research, 2008. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 20 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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20 citing papers in PubMed, 27 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Lai WeiDepartment of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, and the Center for Cancer Research, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee 38163, USA.
Meiyun Fan
Lijing Xu
Kevin Heinrich
Michael W Berry
Ramin Homayouni
Lawrence M Pfeffer
University of Memphis · USUniversity of Tennessee at Knoxville · US

Funding

Arrowsmith Data Mining Techniques in Neuro-InformaticsR01LM007292 · NLM · UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO · PI SMALHEISER, NEIL R · 2001 to 2005
$3.2M
Strategies to improve the antiglioma action of IFN-?: a role for NF-kB inhibitionR01CA133322 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE HEALTH SCI CTR · PI DAVIDOFF, ANDREW M, PFEFFER, LAWRENCE MARC · 2009 to 2013
$2.6M
IFNARI SIGNALING THROUGH STAT3, PI 3 KINASER01CA073753 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE HEALTH SCI CTR · PI PFEFFER, LAWRENCE MARC · 1998 to 2007
$2.4M
NCI NIH HHS CA73753NCI NIH HHS R01 CA133322NLM NIH HHS LM007292-03
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Interferons (IFNs) are critical to the host innate immune response by inducing the expression of a family of early response genes, denoted as IFN-stimulated genes (ISGs). The role of tyrosine phosphorylation of STAT proteins in the transcription activation of ISGs is well-documented. Recent studies have indicated that other transcription factors (TFs) are likely to play a role in regulating ISG expression. Here, we describe a novel integrative approach that combines gene expression profiling, promoter sequence analysis, and literature mining to screen candidate regulatory factors in the IFN signal transduction pathway. Application of this method identified the nuclear factor kappaB (NFkappaB) protein, cRel, as a candidate regulatory factor for a subset of ISGs in mouse embryo fibroblasts. Chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP) and real-time PCR assays confirmed that cRel directly binds to the promoters of several ISGs, including Cxcl10, Isg15, Gbp2, Ifit3, and Ifi203, and regulates their expression. Thus, our studies identify cRel as an important TF for ISGs, and validate the approach of using Latent Semantic Indexing (LSI)-based methods to identify regulatory factors from microarray data.

Indexed as

AnimalsCell LineChromatin ImmunoprecipitationComputational BiologyFibroblastsGene Expression ProfilingGene Expression RegulationInterferonsMiceMice, Inbred C57BLPromoter Regions, GeneticProto-Oncogene Proteins c-relTranscription Factor RelAInterferonsProto-Oncogene Proteins c-relTranscription Factor RelA

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PMID18715197
PMCPMC2988468
OpenAlexW2092052269

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