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INVITED REVIEW
1Institute for Cancer Studies, Division of Genomic Medicine, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2RX, United Kingdom; and 2Department of Medical Nutrition, Novum, Karolinska Institutet, SE 141 86 Huddinge, Sweden
During recent years, the biological roles of CCAAT/enhancer binding proteins (C/EBPs) in the lung have started to be uncovered. C/EBPs form a family within the basic region-leucine zipper class of transcription factors. In the lung epithelium C/EBP
, -
, and -
are expressed. Lung-specific target genes for these transcription factors include the surfactant proteins A and D, the Clara cell secretory protein, and the P450 enzyme CYP2B1. As more information is gathered, a picture is emerging in which C/EBP
has a role in regulating proliferation as well as differentiation-dependent gene expression, whereas C/EBP
and -
, in addition to a partly overlapping role in regulating expression of differentiation markers, also seem to be involved in responses to injury and hormones.
CCAAT/enhancer binding protein; differentiation; gene expression regulation; proliferation regulation
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