MAFK
Gene Information
- Official Symbol: MAFK
- Official Name: MAF bZIP transcription factor K
- Aliases and Previous Symbols: N/A
- Entrez ID: 7975
- UniProt: O60675
- Interactions: BioGRID
- PubMed articles: Open PubMed
- OMIM: Open OMIM
Function Summary
- Entrez Summary: N/A
- UniProt Summary: Since they lack a putative transactivation domain, the small Mafs behave as transcriptional repressors when they dimerize among themselves (PubMed:9150357). However, they seem to serve as transcriptional activators by dimerizing with other (usually larger) basic-zipper proteins, such as NFE2, NFE2L1/NRF1, NFE2L2/NRF2 and NFE2L3/NRF3, and recruiting them to specific DNA- binding sites (PubMed:9150357, PubMed:8932385). Small Maf proteins heterodimerize with Fos and may act as competitive repressors of the NF-E2 transcription factor (PubMed:9150357). {ECO:0000269|PubMed:8932385, ECO:0000269|PubMed:9150357}.
CRISPR Data
Essentiality in NALM6
- Essentiality Rank: 15609
- Expression level (log2 read counts): 5.58