ZBED6: The birth of a new transcription factor in the common ancestor of placental mammals. Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • A DNA transposon integrated into -the genome of a primitive mammal some 200 million years ago and, millions of years later, it evolved an essential function in the common ancestor of all placental mammals. This protein, now named ZBED6, was recently discovered because a mutation disrupting one of its binding sites, in an intron of the IGF2 gene, makes pigs grow more muscle. These findings have revealed a new mechanism for regulating muscle growth as well as a novel transcription factor that appears to be of major importance for transcriptional regulation in placental mammals.

published proceedings

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author list (cited authors)

  • Andersson, L., Andersson, G., Hjlm, G., Jiang, L., Lindblad-Toh, K., Lindroth, A. M., ... Sundstrm, E.

citation count

  • 15

complete list of authors

  • Andersson, Leif||Andersson, Göran||Hjälm, Göran||Jiang, Lin||Lindblad-Toh, Kerstin||Lindroth, Anders M||Markljung, Ellen||Nyström, Anna-Maja||Rubin, Carl-Johan||Sundström, Elisabeth

publication date

  • November 2010