Roles of transcriptional factor 7 in production of inflammatory factors for lung diseases

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• 作者：Yichun Zhu ; William Wang ; Xiangdong Wang
• 关键词：Lung disease ; TCF7 ; TCF ; 1 ; Signal pathways
• 刊名：Journal of Translational Medicine
• 出版年：2015
• 出版时间：December 2015
• 年：2015
• 卷：13
• 期：1
• 全文大小：1,385 KB
• 刊物主题：Biomedicine general; Medicine/Public Health, general;
• 出版者：BioMed Central
• ISSN：1479-5876

文摘

Lung disease is the major cause of death and hospitalization worldwide. Transcription factors such as transcription factor 7 (TCF7) are involved in the pathogenesis of lung diseases. TCF7 is important for T cell development and differentiation, embryonic development, or tumorogenesis. Multiple TCF7 isoforms can be characterized by the full-length isoform (FL-TCF7) as a transcription activator, or dominant negative isoform (dn-TCF7) as a transcription repressor. TCF7 interacts with multiple proteins or target genes and participates in several signal pathways critical for lung diseases. TCF7 is involved in pulmonary infection, allergy or asthma through promoting T cells differentiating to Th2 or memory T cells. TCF7 also works in tissue repair and remodeling after acute lung injury. The dual roles of TCF7 in lung cancers were discussed and it is associated with the cellular proliferation, invasion or metastasis. Thus, TCF7 plays critical roles in lung diseases and should be considered as a new therapeutic target.