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ArticleGenes & cancer2010

GATA Transcription Factors and Cancer.

Rena Zheng, Gerd A Blobel

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Article in Genes & cancer, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 150 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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150citing papers in PubMed, 3 pooled it
9.1field-weighted citation impact, top 2% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

150 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 280 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Rena ZhengDivision of Hematology, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
Gerd A Blobel
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia · USUniversity of Pennsylvania · US

Funding

Transcriptional Networks Controlling Erythroid DifferentiationR01DK054937 · NIDDK · CHILDREN'S HOSP OF PHILADELPHIA · PI Gerd A Blobel · 1999 to 2026
$12.8M
Roles of CBP &PCAF During Hematopoietic DifferentiationR01DK058044 · NIDDK · CHILDREN'S HOSP OF PHILADELPHIA · PI BLOBEL, GERD A · 2002 to 2023
$4.5M
Epigenetic Control of Hematopoietic Gene ExpressionR37DK058044 · NIDDK · CHILDREN'S HOSP OF PHILADELPHIA · PI BLOBEL, GERD A · 2010 to 2019
$3.7M
NIDDK NIH HHS R01 DK054937NIDDK NIH HHS R01 DK058044NIDDK NIH HHS R37 DK058044
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

It has been almost a quarter century since it was first appreciated that a class of oncogenes contained in rapidly transforming avian retroviruses encoded DNA-binding transcription factors. As with other oncogenes, genetic recombination with the viral genome led to their overexpression or functional alteration. In the years that followed, alterations of numerous transcription factors were shown to be causatively involved in various cancers in human patients and model organisms. Depending on their normal cellular functions, these factors were subsequently categorized as proto-oncogenes or tumor suppressor genes. This review focuses on the role of GATA transcription factors in carcinogenesis. GATA factors are zinc finger DNA binding proteins that control the development of diverse tissues by activating or repressing transcription. GATA factors thus coordinate cellular maturation with proliferation arrest and cell survival. Therefore, a role of this family of genes in human cancers is not surprising. Prominent examples include structural mutations in GATA1 that are found in almost all megakaryoblastic leukemias in patients with Down syndrome; loss of GATA3 expression in aggressive, dedifferentiated breast cancers; and silencing of GATA4 and GATA5 expression in colorectal and lung cancers. Here, we discuss possible mechanisms of carcinogenesis vis-à-vis the normal functions of GATA factors as they pertain to human patients and mouse models of cancer.

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cancerGATAtranscription factors

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PMID21779441
PMCPMC3092280
OpenAlexW1964734406

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