E2A Polyclonal Antibody

TCF3 (transcription factor 3) encodes a member of the E protein (class I) family of helix-loop-helix transcription factors. E proteins activate transcription by binding to regulatory E-box sequences on target genes as heterodimers or homodimers, and are inhibited by heterodimerization with inhibitor of DNA-binding (class IV) helix-loop-helix proteins. E proteins play a critical role in lymphopoiesis, and the encoded protein is required for B and T lymphocyte development. Deletion of TCF3 or diminished activity of the encoded protein may play a role in lymphoid malignancies. TCF3 is also involved in several chromosomal translocations that are associated with lymphoid malignancies including pre-B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (t (1; 19), with PBX1), childhood leukemia (t (19; 19), with TFPT) and acute leukemia (t (12; 19), with ZNF384). Alternatively spliced transcript variants encoding multiple isoforms have been observed for TCF3, and a pseudogene of TCF3 is located on the short arm of chromosome 9.

TCF3; BHLHB21; E2A; ITF1; Transcription factor E2-alpha; Class B basic helix-loop-helix protein 21; bHLHb21; Immunoglobulin enhancer-binding factor E12/E47; Immunoglobulin transcription factor 1; Kapp