Description
Product Characteristics: TCF3, ITF1, transcription factor 3 (E2A immunoglobulin enhancer binding factors E12/E47), E2A, MGC129647, MGC129648, E2A immunoglobulin enhancer-binding factor E12/E47, immunoglobulin transcription factor 1, kappa-E2-binding factor, transcription factor 3, transcription factor E2-alpha
Target Information: This gene encodes a member of the E protein (class I) family of helix-loop-helix transcription factors. E proteins activate transcription by binding to regulatory E-box sequences on target genes as heterodimers or homodimers, and are inhibited by heterodimerization with inhibitor of DNA-binding (class IV) helix-loop-helix proteins. E proteins play a critical role in lymphopoiesis, and the encoded protein is required for B and T lymphocyte development. Deletion of this gene or diminished activity of the encoded protein may play a role in lymphoid malignancies. This gene is also involved in several chromosomal translocations that are associated with lymphoid malignancies including pre-B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (t(1\,19), with PBX1), childhood leukemia (t(19\,19), with TFPT) and acute leukemia (t(12\,19), with ZNF384). Alternatively spliced transcript variants encoding multiple isoforms have been observed for this gene, and a pseudogene of this gene is located on the short arm of chromosome 9. [provided by RefSeq, Sep 2011]