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ReviewThe Yale journal of biology and medicine2016

The Role of the Ubiquitously Expressed Transcription Factor Sp1 in Tissue-specific Transcriptional Regulation and in Disease.

Leigh O'Connor, Jane Gilmour, Constanze Bonifer

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Review in The Yale journal of biology and medicine, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 118 papers.

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118citing papers in PubMed
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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

118 citing papers in PubMed, 180 citations in OpenAlex.

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  7. Species-specific roles of SP1 in bovine and human embryonic genome activation and early embryonic development.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
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  11. Unraveling the role of specificity protein 1 in gliomas: pathophysiology and clinical implications.Clinical & translational oncology : official publication of the Federation of Spanish Oncology Societies and of the National Cancer Institute of Mexico · 2026
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  13. Potential ofFrontiers in immunology · 2026
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  18. HIV-1 latency: From acquaintance to confidant.Journal of virus eradication · 2025
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  20. Cloning and Transcriptional Activity Analysis of the BovineAnimals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2025
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58 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Leigh O'ConnorInstitute of Cancer and Genomic Sciences, Institute of Biomedical Research, College of Medical and Dental Sciences, University of Birmingham, UK.
Jane GilmourInstitute of Cancer and Genomic Sciences, Institute of Biomedical Research, College of Medical and Dental Sciences, University of Birmingham, UK.
Constanze BoniferInstitute of Cancer and Genomic Sciences, Institute of Biomedical Research, College of Medical and Dental Sciences, University of Birmingham, UK.
University of Birmingham · GB

Funding

Medical Research Council G0901579Medical Research Council MR/M009157/1
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Sp1 belongs to the 26 member strong Sp/KLF family of transcription factors. It is a paradigm for a ubiquitously expressed transcription factor and is involved in regulating the expression of genes associated with a wide range of cellular processes in mammalian cells. Sp1 can interact with a range of proteins, including other transcription factors, members of the transcription initiation complex and epigenetic regulators, enabling tight regulation of its target genes. In this review, we discuss the mechanisms involved in Sp1-mediated transcriptional regulation, as well as how a ubiquitous transcription factor can be involved in establishing a tissue-specific pattern of gene expression and mechanisms by which its activity may be regulated. We also consider the role of Sp1 in human diseases, such as cancer.

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AnimalsGene Expression RegulationHumansSp1 Transcription FactorTranscription FactorsTranscriptomeSp1 Transcription FactorTranscription Factorsepigeneticsgene regulationhuman diseaseSp1 transcription factortissue specificitytranscriptome

Identifiers

PMID28018142
PMCPMC5168829
OpenAlexW3021346375

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