Targeting Batf2 for infectious diseases and cancer
| Autor: | Frank Brombacher, Reto Guler, Sugata Roy, Harukazu Suzuki |
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| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
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Lipopolysaccharides
Myeloid Tumor suppressor gene host-directed drug therapy Biology Communicable Diseases transcriptomics Mice Immune system transcription factors Neoplasms BATF Gene expression medicine cancer Animals Humans Tuberculosis Macrophage Transcription factor Inflammation Mycobacterium Infections Gene Expression Profiling Macrophages Tumor Suppressor Proteins Dendritic Cells Dendritic cell Macrophage Activation Gene Expression Regulation Neoplastic Basic-Leucine Zipper Transcription Factors medicine.anatomical_structure Gene Expression Regulation Oncology Immune System Research Perspective Immunology Cancer research Transcriptome Biomarkers |
| Zdroj: | Oncotarget |
| ISSN: | 1949-2553 |
| DOI: | 10.18632/oncotarget.5576 |
| Popis: | 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. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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