Iroquois homeobox factor

Protein family

Iroquois homeobox factors are a family of homeodomain transcription factors that play a role in many developmental processes.[1][2] The loci were named for the flies carrying mutations in one of these genes, which are devoid of all bristles in the lateral part of the notum, leaving only a median stripe of bristles, similar to the Iroquois tribes which shaved all but a medial stripe of hairs on the head.[3]

Human genes that encode Iroquois homeobox factors include:[2]

  • IrxA sub-group: IRX1, IRX2, IRX4
  • IrxB sub-group: IRX3, IRX5, IRX6
  • Iroquois-like gene: MKX

References

  1. ^ Gómez-Skarmeta JL, Modolell J (August 2002). "Iroquois genes: genomic organization and function in vertebrate neural development". Curr. Opin. Genet. Dev. 12 (4): 403–8. doi:10.1016/S0959-437X(02)00317-9. PMID 12100884.
  2. ^ a b Kerner P, Ikmi A, Coen D, Vervoort M (2009). "Evolutionary history of the iroquois/Irx genes in metazoans". BMC Evol. Biol. 9 (1): 74. Bibcode:2009BMCEE...9...74K. doi:10.1186/1471-2148-9-74. PMC 2674049. PMID 19368711.
  3. ^ Leyns L, Gómez-Skarmeta JL, Dambly-Chaudière C (September 1996). "iroquois: a prepattern gene that controls the formation of bristles on the thorax ofDrosophila". Mech. Dev. 59 (1): 63–72. doi:10.1016/0925-4773(96)00577-1. PMID 8892233. S2CID 8144286.
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Transcription factors and intracellular receptors
(1) Basic domains
(1.1) Basic leucine zipper (bZIP)
(1.2) Basic helix-loop-helix (bHLH)
Group A
Group B
Group C
bHLH-PAS
Group D
Group E
Group F
bHLH-COE
(1.3) bHLH-ZIP
(1.4) NF-1
(1.5) RF-X
(1.6) Basic helix-span-helix (bHSH)
(2) Zinc finger DNA-binding domains
(2.1) Nuclear receptor (Cys4)
subfamily 1
subfamily 2
subfamily 3
subfamily 4
subfamily 5
subfamily 6
subfamily 0
(2.2) Other Cys4
(2.3) Cys2His2
(2.4) Cys6
(2.5) Alternating composition
(2.6) WRKY
(3) Helix-turn-helix domains
(3.1) Homeodomain
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ANTP class
protoHOX
Hox-like
metaHOX
NK-like
other
(3.2) Paired box
(3.3) Fork head / winged helix
(3.4) Heat shock factors
(3.5) Tryptophan clusters
(3.6) TEA domain
  • transcriptional enhancer factor
(4) β-Scaffold factors with minor groove contacts
(4.1) Rel homology region
(4.2) STAT
(4.3) p53-like
(4.4) MADS box
(4.6) TATA-binding proteins
(4.7) High-mobility group
(4.9) Grainyhead
(4.10) Cold-shock domain
(4.11) Runt
(0) Other transcription factors
(0.2) HMGI(Y)
(0.3) Pocket domain
(0.5) AP-2/EREBP-related factors
(0.6) Miscellaneous
see also transcription factor/coregulator deficiencies