Transcription Factors

"Transcription Factors" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

MeSH information

Definition | Details | More General Concepts | Related Concepts | More Specific Concepts

Endogenous substances, usually proteins, which are effective in the initiation, stimulation, or termination of the genetic transcription process.

Descriptor ID	D014157
MeSH Number(s)	D12.776.930
Concept/Terms	Transcription Factors Transcription Factors Factors, Transcription Transcription Factor Factor, Transcription

Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Transcription Factors".

Chemicals and Drugs [D]
Amino Acids, Peptides, and Proteins [D12]
Proteins [D12.776]
Transcription Factors [D12.776.930]

Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is related to "Transcription Factors".

Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more specific than "Transcription Factors".

publications

Timeline | Most Recent

This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Transcription Factors" by people in this website by year, and whether "Transcription Factors" was a major or minor topic of these publications.

Bar chart showing 1168 publications over 31 distinct years, with a maximum of 78 publications in 2004

To see the data from this visualization as text, click here.

Year	Major Topic	Minor Topic	Total
1995	14	2	16
1996	11	6	17
1997	11	6	17
1998	12	9	21
1999	16	13	29
2000	19	11	30
2001	25	9	34
2002	50	22	72
2003	38	21	59
2004	49	29	78
2005	36	19	55
2006	28	18	46
2007	20	15	35
2008	22	21	43
2009	21	31	52
2010	30	21	51
2011	29	20	49
2012	30	28	58
2013	23	25	48
2014	27	29	56
2015	24	24	48
2016	20	23	43
2017	15	11	26
2018	22	17	39
2019	17	11	28
2020	12	16	28
2021	15	9	24
2022	8	16	24
2023	6	11	17
2024	6	9	15
2025	9	1	10

Below are the most recent publications written about "Transcription Factors" by people in Profiles.

Conti MM, Bail JP, Reynolds AR, Budge LG, Flynn MJ, Li R, Zhu LJ, Benanti JA. Dynamic phosphorylation of Hcm1 promotes fitness in chronic stress. PLoS Genet. 2025 Sep; 21(9):e1011874.

View in: PubMed
Parisutham V, Guharajan S, Lian M, Ali MZ, Rogers H, Joyce S, Noto Guillen M, Brewster RC. E. coli transcription factors regulate promoter activity by a universal, homeostatic mechanism. Science. 2025 Sep 11; 389(6765):eadv2064.

View in: PubMed
Dang NDP, Barcus AK, Conklin CL, Truong TQ, Vivian MD, Wang J, Thomas HR, Parant JM, Yeo NC, Thyme SB. Disrupted development of sensory systems and the cerebellum in a zebrafish ebf3a mutant. G3 (Bethesda). 2025 Jul 09; 15(7).

View in: PubMed
Liu S, Li L, Zhang F, Garcia-Corral M, Meyer K, Fortuna PRJ, van Sambeek B, Appleton E, Ng AHM, Khoshakhlagh P, Lu YR, Cameron J, Ramirez RN, Chen Y, Wu CT, Huang JY, Tan Y, Chao G, Aach J, Lim ET, Tam JM, Raychaudhuri S, Church GM. Iterative transcription factor screening enables rapid generation of microglia-like cells from human iPSC. Nat Commun. 2025 Jun 10; 16(1):5136.

View in: PubMed
Guo S, Hu X, Cotton JL, Ma L, Li Q, Cui J, Wang Y, Thakare RP, Tao Z, Ip YT, Wu X, Wang J, Mao J. VGLL2 and TEAD1 fusion proteins identified in human sarcoma drive YAP/TAZ-independent tumorigenesis by engaging EP300. Elife. 2025 May 08; 13.

View in: PubMed
Fyrberg E, Learnard H, Lee S, Jun YW, Gao FB. New Mouse Lines That Drive Tetracycline-Controlled Gene Expression in a Small Subset of Spinal Cord Dorsal Horn Neurons. eNeuro. 2025 Apr; 12(4).

View in: PubMed
Guharajan S, Parisutham V, Brewster RC. A systematic survey of TF function in E. coli suggests RNAP stabilization is a prevalent strategy for both repressors and activators. Nucleic Acids Res. 2025 Feb 08; 53(4).

View in: PubMed
Guharajan S, Parisutham V, Brewster RC. A systematic survey of TF function in E. coli suggests RNAP stabilization is a prevalent strategy for both repressors and activators. Nucleic Acids Res. 2025 Feb 08; 53(4).

View in: PubMed
Gritti I, Wan J, Weeresekara V, Vaz JM, Tarantino G, Bryde TH, Vijay V, Kammula AV, Kattel P, Zhu S, Vu P, Chan M, Wu MJ, Gordan JD, Patra KC, Silveira VS, Manguso RT, Wein MN, Ott CJ, Qi J, Liu D, Sakamoto K, Gujral TS, Bardeesy N. DNAJB1-PRKACA Fusion Drives Fibrolamellar Liver Cancer through Impaired SIK Signaling and CRTC2/p300-Mediated Transcriptional Reprogramming. Cancer Discov. 2025 Feb 07; 15(2):382-400.

View in: PubMed
Pierson Smela M, Kramme CC, Fortuna PRJ, Wolf B, Goel S, Adams J, Ma C, Velychko S, Widocki U, Srikar Kavirayuni V, Chen T, Vincoff S, Dong E, Kohman RE, Kobayashi M, Shioda T, Church GM, Chatterjee P. Rapid human oogonia-like cell specification via transcription factor-directed differentiation. EMBO Rep. 2025 Feb; 26(4):1114-1143.

View in: PubMed

People

Explore

Similar Concepts

Top Journals