HSF4

Heat shock transcription factor 4
Identifiers
Symbols	HSF4 ; CTM
External IDs	Template:OMIM5 Template:MGI HomoloGene: 31042
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RNA expression pattern
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Species	Human	Mouse
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Heat shock transcription factor 4, also known as HSF4, is a human gene.

Heat-shock transcription factors (HSFs) activate heat-shock response genes under conditions of heat or other stresses. HSF4 lacks the carboxyl-terminal hydrophobic repeat which is shared among all vertebrate HSFs and has been suggested to be involved in the negative regulation of DNA binding activity. Two alternatively spliced transcripts encoding distinct isoforms and possessing different transcriptional activity have been described.

See also

• Heat shock factor

Further reading

• Maruyama K, Sugano S (1994). "Oligo-capping: a simple method to replace the cap structure of eukaryotic mRNAs with oligoribonucleotides". Gene. 138 (1–2): 171–4. PMID 8125298.
• Nakai A, Tanabe M, Kawazoe Y; et al. (1997). "HSF4, a new member of the human heat shock factor family which lacks properties of a transcriptional activator". Mol. Cell. Biol. 17 (1): 469–81. PMID 8972228.CS1 maint: Explicit use of et al. (link) CS1 maint: Multiple names: authors list (link)
• Suzuki Y, Yoshitomo-Nakagawa K, Maruyama K; et al. (1997). "Construction and characterization of a full length-enriched and a 5'-end-enriched cDNA library". Gene. 200 (1–2): 149–56. PMID 9373149.CS1 maint: Explicit use of et al. (link) CS1 maint: Multiple names: authors list (link)
• Tanabe M, Sasai N, Nagata K; et al. (1999). "The mammalian HSF4 gene generates both an activator and a repressor of heat shock genes by alternative splicing". J. Biol. Chem. 274 (39): 27845–56. PMID 10488131.CS1 maint: Explicit use of et al. (link) CS1 maint: Multiple names: authors list (link)
• Dias Neto E, Correa RG, Verjovski-Almeida S; et al. (2000). "Shotgun sequencing of the human transcriptome with ORF expressed sequence tags". Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 97 (7): 3491–6. PMID 10737800.CS1 maint: Explicit use of et al. (link) CS1 maint: Multiple names: authors list (link)
• Bu L, Jin Y, Shi Y; et al. (2002). "Mutant DNA-binding domain of HSF4 is associated with autosomal dominant lamellar and Marner cataract". Nat. Genet. 31 (3): 276–8. doi:10.1038/ng921. PMID 12089525.CS1 maint: Explicit use of et al. (link) CS1 maint: Multiple names: authors list (link)
• Smaoui N, Beltaief O, BenHamed S; et al. (2004). "A homozygous splice mutation in the HSF4 gene is associated with an autosomal recessive congenital cataract". Invest. Ophthalmol. Vis. Sci. 45 (8): 2716–21. doi:10.1167/iovs.03-1370. PMID 15277496.CS1 maint: Explicit use of et al. (link) CS1 maint: Multiple names: authors list (link)
• Somasundaram T, Bhat SP (2004). "Developmentally dictated expression of heat shock factors: exclusive expression of HSF4 in the postnatal lens and its specific interaction with alphaB-crystallin heat shock promoter". J. Biol. Chem. 279 (43): 44497–503. doi:10.1074/jbc.M405813200. PMID 15308659.
• Forshew T, Johnson CA, Khaliq S; et al. (2005). "Locus heterogeneity in autosomal recessive congenital cataracts: linkage to 9q and germline HSF4 mutations". Hum. Genet. 117 (5): 452–9. doi:10.1007/s00439-005-1309-9. PMID 15959809.CS1 maint: Explicit use of et al. (link) CS1 maint: Multiple names: authors list (link)
• Oh JH, Yang JO, Hahn Y; et al. (2006). "Transcriptome analysis of human gastric cancer". Mamm. Genome. 16 (12): 942–54. doi:10.1007/s00335-005-0075-2. PMID 16341674.CS1 maint: Explicit use of et al. (link) CS1 maint: Multiple names: authors list (link)
• 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. PMID 16344560.CS1 maint: Explicit use of et al. (link) CS1 maint: Multiple names: authors list (link)
• Tu N, Hu Y, Mivechi NF (2006). "Heat shock transcription factor (Hsf)-4b recruits Brg1 during the G1 phase of the cell cycle and regulates the expression of heat shock proteins". J. Cell. Biochem. 98 (6): 1528–42. doi:10.1002/jcb.20865. PMID 16552721.CS1 maint: Multiple names: authors list (link)
• Ke T, Wang QK, Ji B; et al. (2006). "Novel HSF4 mutation causes congenital total white cataract in a Chinese family". Am. J. Ophthalmol. 142 (2): 298–303. doi:10.1016/j.ajo.2006.03.056. PMID 16876512.CS1 maint: Explicit use of et al. (link) CS1 maint: Multiple names: authors list (link)

External links

• HSF4+protein,+human at the US National Library of Medicine Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)

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