ATF6

ATF6
Identifiers
Aliases ATF6, ATF6A, ACHM7, activating transcription factor 6
External IDs MGI: 1926157 HomoloGene: 32015 GeneCards: ATF6
Genetically Related Diseases
Parkinson's disease[1]
RNA expression pattern


More reference expression data
Orthologs
Species Human Mouse
Entrez

22926

226641

Ensembl

ENSG00000118217

ENSMUSG00000026663

UniProt

P18850

F6VAN0

RefSeq (mRNA)

NM_007348

NM_001081304

RefSeq (protein)

NP_031374.2

NP_001074773.1

Location (UCSC) Chr 1: 161.77 – 161.96 Mb Chr 1: 170.7 – 170.87 Mb
PubMed search [2] [3]
Wikidata
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Activating transcription factor 6, also known as ATF6, is a protein that, in humans, is encoded by the ATF6 gene[4][5][6] and is involved in the unfolded protein response.

Function

ATF6 is an endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress-regulated transmembrane transcription factor that activates the transcription of ER molecules.[7] Accumulation of misfolded proteins in the Endoplasmic Reticulum results in the proteolytic cleavage of ATF6. The cytosolic portion of ATF6 will move to the nucleus and act as a transcription factor to cause the transcription of ER chaperones.

See also

Interactions

ATF6 has been shown to interact with YY1[8] and Serum response factor.[5]

References

  1. "Diseases that are genetically associated with ATF6 view/edit references on wikidata".
  2. "Human PubMed Reference:".
  3. "Mouse PubMed Reference:".
  4. Hai TW, Liu F, Coukos WJ, Green MR (December 1989). "Transcription factor ATF cDNA clones: an extensive family of leucine zipper proteins able to selectively form DNA-binding heterodimers". Genes Dev. 3 (12B): 2083–90. doi:10.1101/gad.3.12b.2083. PMID 2516827.
  5. 1 2 Zhu C, Johansen FE, Prywes R (September 1997). "Interaction of ATF6 and serum response factor". Mol. Cell. Biol. 17 (9): 4957–66. PMC 232347Freely accessible. PMID 9271374.
  6. Meex SJ, van Greevenbroek MM, Ayoubi TA, Vlietinck R, van Vliet-Ostaptchouk JV, Hofker MH, Vermeulen VM, Schalkwijk CG, Feskens EJ, Boer JM, Stehouwer CD, van der Kallen CJ, de Bruin TW (July 2007). "Activating transcription factor 6 polymorphisms and haplotypes are associated with impaired glucose homeostasis and type 2 diabetes in Dutch Caucasians". J. Clin. Endocrinol. Metab. 92 (7): 2720–5. doi:10.1210/jc.2006-2280. PMID 17440018.
  7. "Entrez Gene: ATF6 activating transcription factor 6".
  8. Li M, Baumeister P, Roy B, Phan T, Foti D, Luo S, Lee AS (2000). "ATF6 as a transcription activator of the endoplasmic reticulum stress element: thapsigargin stress-induced changes and synergistic interactions with NF-Y and YY1". Mol. Cell. Biol. 20 (14): 5096–106. doi:10.1128/MCB.20.14.5096-5106.2000. PMC 85959Freely accessible. PMID 10866666.

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