FUNCTION: Transcription factor playing an important role in primary neurulation and in epithelial development (PubMed:29309642, PubMed:25152456). Binds directly to the consensus DNA sequence 5'-AACCGGTT-3' acting as an activator and repressor on distinct target genes (By similarity). During embryoge...
FUNCTION: Transcription factor playing an important role in primary neurulation and in epithelial development (PubMed:29309642, PubMed:25152456). Binds directly to the consensus DNA sequence 5'-AACCGGTT-3' acting as an activator and repressor on distinct target genes (By similarity). During embryogenesis, plays unique and cooperative roles with GRHL3 in establishing distinct zones of primary neurulation. Essential for closure 3 (rostral end of the forebrain), functions cooperatively with GRHL3 in closure 2 (forebrain/midbrain boundary) and posterior neuropore closure (By similarity). Regulates epithelial morphogenesis acting as a target gene-associated transcriptional activator of apical junctional complex components. Up-regulates of CLDN3 and CLDN4, as well as of RAB25, which increases the CLDN4 protein and its localization at tight junctions (By similarity). Comprises an essential component of the transcriptional machinery that establishes appropriate expression levels of CLDN4 and CDH1 in different types of epithelia. Exhibits functional redundancy with GRHL3 in epidermal morphogenetic events and epidermal wound repair (By similarity). In lung, forms a regulatory loop with NKX2-1 that coordinates lung epithelial cell morphogenesis and differentiation (By similarity). In keratinocytes, plays a role in telomerase activation during cellular proliferation, regulates TERT expression by binding to TERT promoter region and inhibiting DNA methylation at the 5'-CpG island, possibly by interfering with DNMT1 enzyme activity (PubMed:19015635, PubMed:20938050). In addition, impairs keratinocyte differentiation and epidermal function by inhibiting the expression of genes clustered at the epidermal differentiation complex (EDC) as well as GRHL1 and GRHL3 through epigenetic mechanisms (PubMed:23254293). {ECO:0000250|UniProtKB:Q8K5C0, ECO:0000269|PubMed:19015635, ECO:0000269|PubMed:20938050, ECO:0000269|PubMed:20978075, ECO:0000269|PubMed:23254293, ECO:0000269|PubMed:25152456, ECO:0000269|PubMed:29309642, ECO:0000305|PubMed:12175488}.
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GO - Biological processes (BP):
anterior neural tube closure [GO:0061713]; bicellular tight junction assembly [GO:0070830]; brain development [GO:0007420]; camera-type eye development [GO:0043010]; cardiac ventricle morphogenesis [GO:0003208]; cell adhesion [GO:0007155]; cell junction assembly [GO:0034329]; cell population prolife...
anterior neural tube closure [GO:0061713]; bicellular tight junction assembly [GO:0070830]; brain development [GO:0007420]; camera-type eye development [GO:0043010]; cardiac ventricle morphogenesis [GO:0003208]; cell adhesion [GO:0007155]; cell junction assembly [GO:0034329]; cell population proliferation [GO:0008283]; embryonic cranial skeleton morphogenesis [GO:0048701]; embryonic digit morphogenesis [GO:0042733]; epidermis development [GO:0008544]; epithelial cell morphogenesis [GO:0003382]; epithelial cell morphogenesis involved in placental branching [GO:0060672]; epithelium migration [GO:0090132]; face development [GO:0060324]; lung epithelial cell differentiation [GO:0060487]; lung lobe morphogenesis [GO:0060463]; multicellular organism growth [GO:0035264]; negative regulation of keratinocyte differentiation [GO:0045617]; neural tube closure [GO:0001843]; neural tube development [GO:0021915]; positive regulation of telomerase activity [GO:0051973]; positive regulation of transcription by RNA polymerase II [GO:0045944]; regulation of DNA methylation [GO:0044030]; regulation of transcription by RNA polymerase II [GO:0006357]
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GO - Molecular function (MF):
chromatin DNA binding [GO:0031490]; DNA-binding transcription activator activity, RNA polymerase II-specific [GO:0001228]; DNA-binding transcription factor activity [GO:0003700]; DNA-binding transcription factor activity, RNA polymerase II-specific [GO:0000981]; intronic transcription regulatory reg...
chromatin DNA binding [GO:0031490]; DNA-binding transcription activator activity, RNA polymerase II-specific [GO:0001228]; DNA-binding transcription factor activity [GO:0003700]; DNA-binding transcription factor activity, RNA polymerase II-specific [GO:0000981]; intronic transcription regulatory region sequence-specific DNA binding [GO:0001161]; RNA polymerase II cis-regulatory region sequence-specific DNA binding [GO:0000978]; sequence-specific DNA binding [GO:0043565]
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GO - Cellular component (CC):
cell-cell junction [GO:0005911]; chromatin [GO:0000785]; membrane [GO:0016020]; nucleoplasm [GO:0005654]; nucleus [GO:0005634]...
cell-cell junction [GO:0005911]; chromatin [GO:0000785]; membrane [GO:0016020]; nucleoplasm [GO:0005654]; nucleus [GO:0005634]
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