KLF12

Kruppel-like factor 12
Identifiers
Symbols	KLF12; AP-2rep; AP2REP
External IDs	OMIM: 607531 MGI: 1333796 HomoloGene: 21417 GeneCards: KLF12 Gene
Gene Ontology Molecular function • DNA binding • sequence-specific DNA binding transcription factor activity • transcription corepressor activity • zinc ion binding • metal ion binding Cellular component • intracellular • nucleus Biological process • negative regulation of transcription from RNA polymerase II promoter • transcription, DNA-dependent • transcription, DNA-dependent • regulation of transcription from RNA polymerase II promoter • positive regulation of transcription from RNA polymerase II promoter Sources: Amigo / QuickGO
RNA expression pattern
More reference expression data
Orthologs
Species	Human	Mouse
Entrez	11278	16597
Ensembl	ENSG00000118922	ENSMUSG00000072294
UniProt	Q9Y4X4	Q6NWV9
RefSeq (mRNA)	NM_016285	NM_010636.3
RefSeq (protein)	NP_057369	NP_034766.2
Location (UCSC)	Chr 13: 74.26 – 74.71 Mb	Chr 14: 100.27 – 100.55 Mb
PubMed search	[1]	[2]

Krueppel-like factor 12 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the KLF12 gene.

Activator protein-2 alpha (AP-2 alpha) is a developmentally-regulated transcription factor and important regulator of gene expression during vertebrate development and carcinogenesis. The protein encoded by this gene is a member of the Kruppel-like zinc finger protein family and can repress expression of the AP-2 alpha gene by binding to a specific site in the AP-2 alpha gene promoter. Repression by the encoded protein requires binding with a corepressor, CtBP1. Two transcript variants encoding different isoforms have been found for this gene.

See also

• Kruppel-like factors

Further reading

• Imhof A, Schuierer M, Werner O, et al. (1999). "Transcriptional regulation of the AP-2alpha promoter by BTEB-1 and AP-2rep, a novel wt-1/egr-related zinc finger repressor". Mol. Cell. Biol. 19 (1): 194–204. PMC 83878. PMID 9858544. http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pmcentrez&artid=83878. 
• Zhang QH, Ye M, Wu XY, et al. (2001). "Cloning and functional analysis of cDNAs with open reading frames for 300 previously undefined genes expressed in CD34+ hematopoietic stem/progenitor cells". Genome Res. 10 (10): 1546–60. doi:10.1101/gr.140200. PMC 310934. PMID 11042152. http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pmcentrez&artid=310934. 
• Schuierer M, Hilger-Eversheim K, Dobner T, et al. (2001). "Induction of AP-2alpha expression by adenoviral infection involves inactivation of the AP-2rep transcriptional corepressor CtBP1". J. Biol. Chem. 276 (30): 27944–9. doi:10.1074/jbc.M100070200. PMID 11373277. 
• Zhu CH, Huang Y, Broman MT, Domann FE (2001). "Expression of AP-2 alpha in SV40 immortalized human lung fibroblasts is associated with a distinct pattern of cytosine methylation in the AP-2 alpha promoter". Biochim. Biophys. Acta 1519 (1–2): 85–91. PMID 11406275. 
• Chen C, Brabham WW, Stultz BG, et al. (2001). "Defining a common region of deletion at 13q21 in human cancers". Genes Chromosomes Cancer 31 (4): 333–44. doi:10.1002/gcc.1152. PMID 11433524. 
• Rozenblum E, Vahteristo P, Sandberg T, et al. (2002). "A genomic map of a 6-Mb region at 13q21-q22 implicated in cancer development: identification and characterization of candidate genes". Hum. Genet. 110 (2): 111–21. doi:10.1007/s00439-001-0646-6. PMID 11935316. 
• Strausberg RL, Feingold EA, Grouse LH, et al. (2003). "Generation and initial analysis of more than 15,000 full-length human and mouse cDNA sequences". Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 99 (26): 16899–903. doi:10.1073/pnas.242603899. PMC 139241. PMID 12477932. http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pmcentrez&artid=139241. 
• Ota T, Suzuki Y, Nishikawa T, et al. (2004). "Complete sequencing and characterization of 21,243 full-length human cDNAs". Nat. Genet. 36 (1): 40–5. doi:10.1038/ng1285. PMID 14702039. 
• Dunham A, Matthews LH, Burton J, et al. (2004). "The DNA sequence and analysis of human chromosome 13". Nature 428 (6982): 522–8. doi:10.1038/nature02379. PMC 2665288. PMID 15057823. http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pmcentrez&artid=2665288. 
• Gerhard DS, Wagner L, Feingold EA, et al. (2004). "The status, quality, and expansion of the NIH full-length cDNA project: the Mammalian Gene Collection (MGC)". Genome Res. 14 (10B): 2121–7. doi:10.1101/gr.2596504. PMC 528928. PMID 15489334. http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pmcentrez&artid=528928. 
• Rual JF, Venkatesan K, Hao T, et al. (2005). "Towards a proteome-scale map of the human protein-protein interaction network". Nature 437 (7062): 1173–8. doi:10.1038/nature04209. PMID 16189514. 
• Kimura K, Wakamatsu A, Suzuki Y, et al. (2006). "Diversification of transcriptional modulation: large-scale identification and characterization of putative alternative promoters of human genes". Genome Res. 16 (1): 55–65. doi:10.1101/gr.4039406. PMC 1356129. PMID 16344560. http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pmcentrez&artid=1356129. 
• Suda S, Rai T, Sohara E, et al. (2006). "Postnatal expression of KLF12 in the inner medullary collecting ducts of kidney and its trans-activation of UT-A1 urea transporter promoter". Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 344 (1): 246–52. doi:10.1016/j.bbrc.2006.03.138. PMID 16615998. 

External links

• MeSH KLF12+protein,+human

This article incorporates text from the United States National Library of Medicine, which is in the public domain.