title: C/EBP transcription factors in the lung epithelium.
abstract: 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/EBPalpha, -beta, and -delta 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/EBPalpha has a role in regulating proliferation as well as differentiation-dependent gene expression, whereas C/EBPbeta and -delta, in addition to a partly overlapping role in regulating expression of differentiation markers, also seem to be involved in responses to injury and hormones.
authors.affiliation: Dept. of Medical Nutrition, Karolinska Institutet, Novum, Huddinge Univ. Hospital, SE 141 86 Huddinge, Sweden.
authors.forename: Tobias N
authors.initials: TN
authors.lastname: Cassel
authors.forename: Magnus
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Nord
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D022762:CCAAT-Enhancer-Binding Proteins / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000502:physiology; D004848:Epithelium / Q000378:metabolism; D005786:Gene Expression Regulation; D006801:Humans; D008168:Lung / Q000378:metabolism*; D008968:Molecular Conformation; D005810:Multigene Family
chemical_list: D022762:CCAAT-Enhancer-Binding Proteins