TEAD1 Antibody – Rabbit Polyclonal

This gene encodes a ubiquitous transcriptional enhancer factor that is a member of the TEA/ATTS domain family. This protein directs the transactivation of a wide variety of genes and, in placental cells, also acts as a transcriptional repressor. Mutations in this gene cause Sveinsson's chorioretinal atrophy. Additional transcript variants have been described but their full-length natures have not been experimentally verified. [provided by RefSeq, May 2010]

TEAD1: Transcription factor which plays a key role in the Hippo signaling pathway, a pathway involved in organ size control and tumor suppression by restricting proliferation and promoting apoptosis. The core of this pathway is composed of a kinase cascade wherein MST1/MST2, in complex with its regulatory protein SAV1, phosphorylates and activates LATS1/2 in complex with its regulatory protein MOB1, which in turn phosphorylates and inactivates YAP1 oncoprotein and WWTR1/TAZ. Acts by mediating gene expression of YAP1 and WWTR1/TAZ, thereby regulating cell proliferation, migration and epithelial mesenchymal transition (EMT) induction. Binds specifically and cooperatively to the SPH and GT-IIC 'enhansons' (5'-GTGGAATGT-3') and activates transcription in vivo in a cell-specific manner. The activation function appears to be mediated by a limiting cell-specific transcriptional intermediary factor (TIF). Involved in cardiac development. Binds to the M-CAT motif. Interacts with YAP1 and WWTR1/TAZ. Preferentially expressed in skeletal muscle. Lower levels in pancreas, placenta, and heart.

Protein type: Transcription factor; DNA-binding

Chromosomal Location of Human Ortholog: 11p15.2

Cellular Component: nucleoplasm; Golgi apparatus; cytoplasm

Molecular Function: protein binding; DNA binding; transcription factor activity

Biological Process: transcription initiation from RNA polymerase II promoter; regulation of transcription, DNA-dependent; gene expression

Disease: Sveinsson Chorioretinal Atrophy