Description
Product Characteristics:
CREM is a a bZIP transcription factor that binds to the cAMP responsive element found in many viral and cellular promoters. It is derived from a multiexonic gene that encodes both activators and antagonists of cAMP-inducible transcription by differential splicing. Splice variants with antagonistic function lack 2 glutamine-rich domains and block cAMP-induced transcription, whereas an isoform that includes these glutamine-rich domains is a transcriptional activator.
Subcellular location: Nucleus
Synonyms: cAMP response element modulator, CREM-1, cAMP responsive element modulator, hCREM 2, hCREM2, ICER, Inducible cAMP early repressor, Inducible cAMP early repressor ICER, MGC111110, MGC17881, MGC41893.
Target Information: This gene encodes a bZIP transcription factor that binds to the cAMP responsive element found in many viral and cellular promoters. It is an important component of cAMP-mediated signal transduction during the spermatogenetic cycle, as well as other complex processes. Alternative promoter and translation initiation site usage allows this gene to exert spatial and temporal specificity to cAMP responsiveness. Multiple alternatively spliced transcript variants encoding several different isoforms have been found for this gene, with some of them functioning as activators and some as repressors of transcription. [provided by RefSeq, Jul 2008]