XB-FEAT-984478

bcl6

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nomenclature changes

12/18/2017

Human name has changed for Entrez Gene: 604. From B-cell CLL/lymphoma 6 to B cell CLL/lymphoma 6

NCBI Summary

The protein encoded by this gene is a zinc finger transcription factor and contains an N-terminal POZ domain. This protein acts as a sequence-specific repressor of transcription, and has been shown to modulate the transcription of STAT-dependent IL-4 responses of B cells. This protein can interact with a variety of POZ-containing proteins that function as transcription corepressors. This gene is found to be frequently translocated and hypermutated in diffuse large-cell lymphoma (DLCL), and may be involved in the pathogenesis of DLCL. Alternatively spliced transcript variants encoding different protein isoforms have been found for this gene. [provided by RefSeq, Aug 2015]

Nomenclature updates

11/06/2018 Human name has changed for Entrez Gene: 604. From B cell CLL/lymphoma 6 to BCL6, transcription repressor