Recombinant Human Double homeobox protein 4 (DUX4), partial

1. Sporadic DUX4 expression seen in FSHD myocytes is due to the incomplete repression by the PRC2 complex. PMID: 30122154
2. Biallelic DUX4 expression lowers the threshold for disease presentation and is a modifier for disease severity in FSHD2. PMID: 29162933
3. recurrent IGH-DUX4 or ERG-DUX4 fusions, ETV6-RUNX1-like gene-expression profile in B-cell precursor acute lymphoblastic leukaemia, is reported. PMID: 27265895
4. The recent identification of aberrant activation of DUX4 transcription in Facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy. PMID: 29478599
5. Case Report: t(10;19) CIC-DUX4 undifferentiated small round cell sarcoma of the abdominal wall. PMID: 28645808
6. The DUX4 homeodomains mediate inhibition of myogenesis and are functionally exchangeable with the Pax7 homeodomain. PMID: 28935672
7. selective loss of H3K9me3 from the DUX4 locus is associated with expression of DUX4 in late-phase squamous differentiation of human keratinocytes in vitro and in vivo. PMID: 26872601
8. We discuss the involvement of this rearrangement in Facioscapulohumeral dystrophy (FSHD), since all mutations in SMCHD1 are not associated with D4Z4 hypomethylation and do not always segregate with the disease PMID: 28744936
9. The study describes a model system for inducible DUX4 expression that enables reproducible and synchronized experiments and validates the fidelity and facioscapulohumeral dystrophy (FSHD) relevance of multiple distinct models of DUX4 expression. PMID: 28171552
10. DUX4 and Dux may regulate some common pathways, and despite diverging from a common progenitor under different selective pressures for millions of years, the two genes maintain partial functional homology. PMID: 28173143
11. We propose that DUX4 controls the cellular migration of mesenchymal stem cells through the CXCR4 receptor. PMID: 27556182
12. These novel inhibitors of DUX4 transcriptional activity may thus act on pathways or cofactors needed by DUX4 for transcriptional activation in these cells. PMID: 27245141
13. It has been proposed that the induction of DNA damage is a novel function of the DUX4 protein affecting myogenic differentiation of facioscapulohumeral dystrophy myoblasts. PMID: 27519269
14. results underscore the complexity of the region immediately downstream of the D4Z4 and uncover a previously unknown function for the beta-satellite region in Dux4 cleavage and polyadenylation. PMID: 28540412
15. Gene silencing of CIC-DUX4 as well as Ccnd2, Ret, and Bcl2 effectively inhibited CDS tumor growth in vitro PMID: 28404587
16. Estrogens antagonize DUX4 transcriptional activity and its differentiation inhibitory function and support the protective role of these hormones toward facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy myoblast in in vitro differentiation. PMID: 28263188
17. Findings show CIC-DUX4 sarcomas occur mostly in young adults within the somatic soft tissues, having a wide spectrum of morphology including round, epithelioid and spindle cells, and associated with an aggressive clinical course, with an inferior survival compared with Ewing sarcoma. Results support classification of CIC-rearranged tumors as an independent molecular and clinical subset of small blue round cell tumors. PMID: 28346326
18. DUX4 activate genes associated with a cleavage-stage embryos in muscle cells. PMID: 28459454
19. DUX4 role in activating cleavage-stage genes and MERVL/HERVL retrotransposons. PMID: 28459457
20. DUX4 rearrangement and overexpression is associated with acute lymphoblastic leukemia. PMID: 27776115
21. Targeted next-generation sequencing of CIC-DUX4 soft tissue sarcomas demonstrates low mutational burden and recurrent chromosome 1p loss. PMID: 27664537
22. Transcriptomic analysis showed that DUX4 operates through both target gene activation and repression to orchestrate a transcriptome characteristic of a less-differentiated cell state. PMID: 27744317
23. MYC, DUX4, and EIF4A3 might contribute to facioscapulohumeral dystrophy pathophysiology PMID: 28273136
24. data shows that DUX4 can become an oncogenic driver as a result of somatic chromosomal rearrangements and that acute lymphoblastic leukemia in adolescents and young adults may be a clinical entity distinct from ALL at other ages PMID: 27019113
25. We show that a DUX4 minigene, bearing only the homeodomains and C-terminus, is transcriptionally functional and cytotoxic, and that overexpression of a nuclear targeted C-terminus impairs the ability of WT DUX4 to interact with p300 and to regulate target genes. PMID: 26951377
26. The aim of this study was to describe seven cases of CIC-DUX4 fusion-positive sarcomas, including the first reported example arising primarily in bone. Our series confirms that CIC-DUX4 fusion-positive sarcomas are aggressive tumours with an adverse prognosis PMID: 27079694
27. CIC-DUX4 gene fusion is associated with Round cell sarcoma. PMID: 26800124
28. Report DNA-binding sequence preferences of DUX4. PMID: 26823969
29. Recent studies indicate that a combination of genetic and epigenetic factors that act on the D4Z4 repeat array determine the probability of DUX4 expression in skeletal muscle and disease penetrance and progression PMID: 26356006
30. DUX4 mRNAs were induced during the differentiation of hMSCs into osteoblasts and that this process involved DUX4 and new longer protein forms. PMID: 26192274
31. Endogenous DUX4 expression in FSHD myotubes is sufficient to cause cell death and disrupts RNA splicing and cell migration pathways. PMID: 26246499
32. Interactions between DUX4 and DUX4c with cytoplasmic proteins play a major role during muscle differentiation. PMID: 26816005
33. Loss of D4Z4 repression in facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy is observed as hypomethylation of the array accompanied by loss of repressive chromatin marks. [Review] PMID: 26113644
34. Our results demonstrate that FRG1 is a direct DUX4 transcriptional target uncovering a novel regulatory circuit contributing to Facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy. PMID: 25326393
35. This feedback loop illustrates an unexpected mode of autoregulatory behavior of a transcription factor, is consistent with 'bursts' of DUX4 expression in facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy muscle. PMID: 25564732
36. These findings demonstrate that the expression of DUX4 accounts for the majority of the gene expression changes in facioscapulohumeral dystrophy skeletal muscle together with an immune cell infiltration. PMID: 24861551
37. There is a special role of the 4q/10q D4Z4 chromatin and the DUX4 open reading frame in facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy. PMID: 24838473
38. The distinct gene signature and immunoprofile of CIC-DUX4 sarcomas suggest a distinct pathogenesis from Ewing sarcoma. PMID: 24723486
39. Results show that both DUX4-FL isoforms are expressed in facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (FSHD) myotubes; DUX4-FL expression level is much lower in trapezius than in quadriceps myotubes, which is confirmed by the level of expression of DUX4 downstream genes PMID: 23966205

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HGNC: 50800

OMIM: 158900

KEGG: hsa:100288687

UniGene: Hs.728749