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ArticleOncotarget2015

Targeting Batf2 for infectious diseases and cancer.

Reto Guler, Sugata Roy, Harukazu Suzuki, Frank Brombacher

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Article in Oncotarget, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 25 papers.

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25citing papers in PubMed
2.1field-weighted citation impact, top 13% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

25 citing papers in PubMed, 44 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Reto GulerInternational Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, Cape Town Component, Cape Town, South Africa.
Sugata RoyRIKEN Center for Life Science Technologies, Division of Genomic Technologies, Tsurumi-ku, Yokohama, Japan.
Harukazu SuzukiRIKEN Center for Life Science Technologies, Division of Genomic Technologies, Tsurumi-ku, Yokohama, Japan.
Frank BrombacherInternational Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, Cape Town Component, Cape Town, South Africa.
University of Cape Town · ZA

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The family members Batf, Batf2 and Batf3 belong to a class of transcription factors containing basic leucine zipper domains that regulate various immunological functions and control the development and differentiation of immune cells. Functional studies by others demonstrated a predominant role for Batf in controlling Th2 cell functions and lineage development of T lymphocytes as well as a critical role of Batf, Batf2 and Batf3 in CD8α+dendritic cell development. Moreover, Batf family member expression was measured in a vast collection of mouse and human cell types by cap analysis gene expression (CAGE), a recent developed sequencing technology, showing reasonable expression spectrum in immune cells consistent with previously published expression profiles. Batf and Batf3 were highly expressed in lymphocytes and the earlier moderately expressed in myeloid lineages. Batf2 was predominantly expressed in monocytes/macrophages. Functional studies in mice demonstrated that Batf2 has a central role in macrophage activation by regulating inflammatory responses during lipopolysaccharides stimulation and mycobacterial infection. Hence, Batf2 could be used as a biomarker and a potential host directed drug target in tuberculosis. Moreover, Batf2 act as a tumor suppressor gene and augmenting Batf2 in malignant cells might be an encouraging therapeutic treatment against cancer.

Indexed as

AnimalsBasic-Leucine Zipper Transcription FactorsBiomarkersCommunicable DiseasesDendritic CellsGene Expression ProfilingGene Expression RegulationGene Expression Regulation, NeoplasticHumansImmune SystemInflammationLipopolysaccharidesMacrophage ActivationMacrophagesMiceMycobacterium InfectionsBasic-Leucine Zipper Transcription FactorsBatf2 protein, humanBATF2 protein, mouseBiomarkersLipopolysaccharidesTumor Suppressor Proteinscancerhost-directed drug therapytranscription factorstranscriptomicstuberculosis

Identifiers

PMID26376615
PMCPMC4694937
OpenAlexW2165506911

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