Description
Product Characteristics: Functions as a transcriptional repressor. Regulates the proliferation and the differentiation of erythroid progenitors by repressing the expression of TAL1 target genes. Plays a role in granulocyte differentiation.
Target Information: This gene encodes a member of the myeloid translocation gene family which interact with DNA-bound transcription factors and recruit a range of corepressors to facilitate transcriptional repression. The t(16\,21)(q24\,q22) translocation is one of the less common karyotypic abnormalities in acute myeloid leukemia. The translocation produces a chimeric gene made up of the 5'-region of the runt-related transcription factor 1 gene fused to the 3'-region of this gene. This gene is also a putative breast tumor suppressor. Alternative splicing results in transcript variants. [provided by RefSeq, Nov 2010]