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MEF2, Myocyte Enhancer Factor 2, is a transcription factor with four specific numbers such as MEF2A, B, C, and D. Each MEF2 gene is located on a specific chromosome. MEF2 is known to be involved in the development and the looping of the heart (Chen) MEF2 is necessary for myocyte differentiation and gene activation (Black).
Enhancers are regions of the genome that are major gene-regulatory elements. Enhancers control cell-type-specific gene expression programs, most often by looping through long distances to come in physical proximity with the promoters of their target genes. [33] While there are hundreds of thousands of enhancer DNA regions, [2] for a particular ...
Transcriptional enhancers control the cell-identity gene expression and are important in the cell identity. Enhancers are primed by histone H3K4 mono-/di-methyltransferase MLL4 and then are activated by histone H3K27 acetyltransferase p300. [5] H3K4me1 fine-tunes the enhancer activity and function rather than controls. [4]
Several cell function specific transcription factor proteins (in 2018 Lambert et al. indicated there were about 1,600 transcription factors in a human cell [8]) generally bind to specific motifs on an enhancer [9] and a small combination of these enhancer-bound transcription factors, when brought close to a promoter by a DNA loop, govern the ...
Myocyte-specific enhancer factor 2C also known as MADS box transcription enhancer factor 2, polypeptide C is a protein that in humans is encoded by the MEF2C gene. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] MEF2C is a transcription factor in the Mef2 family.
Enhanceosomes are formed in special cases when these activators cooperatively bind together along the enhancer sequence to create a distinct three-dimensional structure. Each enhanceosome is unique towards its specific enhancer. This assembly is facilitated by energetically favorable protein: protein and protein: DNA interactions. Therefore ...
This property of enhancers makes it difficult to identify an enhancer's target gene(s). Insulators , another type of DNA regulatory element, limit an enhancer's ability to target distal genes when the insulator is located between an enhancer and a potential target.
Under conditions of stress, a transcription activator protein binds to the response element and stimulates transcription. If the same response element sequence is located in the control regions of different genes, then these genes will be activated by the same stimuli, thus producing a coordinated response.