ID:ELF3_HUMAN DESCRIPTION: RecName: Full=ETS-related transcription factor Elf-3; AltName: Full=E74-like factor 3; AltName: Full=Epithelial-restricted with serine box; AltName: Full=Epithelium-restricted Ets protein ESX; AltName: Full=Epithelium-specific Ets transcription factor 1; Short=ESE-1; FUNCTION: Transcriptional activator that binds and transactivates ETS sequences containing the consensus nucleotide core sequence GGA[AT]. Acts synergistically with POU2F3 to transactivate the SPRR2A promoter and with RUNX1 to transactivate the ANGPT1 promoter. Also transactivates collagenase, CCL20, CLND7, FLG, KRT8, NOS2, PTGS2, SPRR2B, TGFBR2 and TGM3 promoters. Represses KRT4 promoter activity. Involved in mediating vascular inflammation. May play an important role in epithelial cell differentiation and tumorigenesis. May be a critical downstream effector of the ERBB2 signaling pathway. May be associated with mammary gland development and involution. Plays an important role in the regulation of transcription with TATA-less promoters in preimplantation embryos, which is essential in preimplantation development (By similarity). SUBUNIT: Interacts with TBP. Interacts with CREBBP and EP300; these act as transcriptional coactivators of ELF3 and positively modulate its function. Interacts with XRCC5/KU86 and XRCC6/KU70; these inhibit the ability of ELF3 to bind DNA and negatively modulate its transcriptional activity. Associated with CLND7 and POU2F3. SUBCELLULAR LOCATION: Cytoplasm. Nucleus. Note=Localizes to the cytoplasm where it has been shown to transform MCF-12A mammary epithelial cells via a novel cytoplasmic mechanism. Also transiently expressed and localized to the nucleus where it induces apoptosis in non-transformed breast epithelial cells MCF- 10A and MCF-12A via a transcription-dependent mechanism. TISSUE SPECIFICITY: Expressed exclusively in tissues containing a high content of terminally differentiated epithelial cells including mammary gland, colon, trachea, kidney, prostate, uterus, stomach and skin. INDUCTION: Transcriptionally regulated by ERBB2 receptor signaling in breast cancer epithelial cells. Up-regulated by phorbol 12- myristate 13-acetate (PMA) in bronchial epithelial cells. By retinoic acid in MCF-7 mammary epithelial cells (at protein level). DOMAIN: the 9aaTAD motif is a transactivation domain present in a large number of yeast and animal transcription factors. SIMILARITY: Belongs to the ETS family. SIMILARITY: Contains 1 ETS DNA-binding domain. SIMILARITY: Contains 1 PNT (pointed) domain.
The RNAfold program from the Vienna RNA Package is used to perform the secondary structure predictions and folding calculations. The estimated folding energy is in kcal/mol. The more negative the energy, the more secondary structure the RNA is likely to have.
ModBase Predicted Comparative 3D Structure on P78545
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Orthologous Genes in Other Species
Orthologies between human, mouse, and rat are computed by taking the best BLASTP hit, and filtering out non-syntenic hits. For more distant species reciprocal-best BLASTP hits are used. Note that the absence of an ortholog in the table below may reflect incomplete annotations in the other species rather than a true absence of the orthologous gene.
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