Description
Product Characteristics:
ChREBP (Carbohydrate responsive element binding protein) is a transcription factor playing a critical role in the nutrient and hormonal regulation of genes encoding enzymes of glucose metabolism and lipogenesis pathways. It contains several domains including a nuclear localization signal (NLS) near the N-terminus, polyproline domains, a basic helix-loop-helix leucine zipper (b/HLH/Zip) and a leucine zipper like (zip-like) domain.ChREBP is ubiquitously detected in various tissues, with highest expression in liver, kidney and white and brown adipose tissue. Under basal conditions ChREBP is localized in the cytosol, translocating into the nucleus upon high glucose stimulation following its dephosphorylation of serine 196.
Subcellular location: Nucleus
Synonyms: ChREBP, bHLHd14, Carbohydrate responsive element binding protein, MIO, MLX interacting protein like, Mlx interactor, MLXIPL, MONDOB, WBSCR 14, WBSCR14, Williams Beuren syndrome chromosome region 14, Williams Beuren syndrome chromosome region 14 protein, WS basic helix loop helix leucine zipper protein, WS bHLH, MLXPL_HUMAN.
Target Information: This gene encodes a basic helix-loop-helix leucine zipper transcription factor of the Myc/Max/Mad superfamily. This protein forms a heterodimeric complex and binds and activates, in a glucose-dependent manner, carbohydrate response element (ChoRE) motifs in the promoters of triglyceride synthesis genes. The gene is deleted in Williams-Beuren syndrome, a multisystem developmental disorder caused by the deletion of contiguous genes at chromosome 7q11.23. [provided by RefSeq, Jul 2008]