title: FOXM1, a typical proliferation-associated transcription factor.
abstract: FOXM1 is a typical proliferation-associated transcription factor: it stimulates proliferation by promoting S-phase entry as well as M-phase entry and is involved in proper execution of mitosis. Accordingly, FOXM1 regulates genes that control G1/S-transition, S-phase progression, G2/M-transition and M-phase progression. Consistently, its expression and its activity are antagonistically regulated by many important proliferation and anti-proliferation signals. Furthermore, FOXM1 is implicated in tumorigenesis and contributes to both tumor initiation and progression. In addition to its function as a conventional transcription factor, FOXM1 transactivates the human c-myc P1 and P2 promoters directly via their TATA-boxes by a new transactivation mechanism, which it also employs for transactivation of the human c-fos, hsp70 and histone H2B/a promoters. This review summarizes the current knowledge on FOXM1, in particular its two different transactivation mechanisms, the regulation of its transcriptional activity by proliferation versus anti-proliferation signals and its function in normal cell cycle progression and tumorigenesis.
authors.affiliation: Wissmannstr. 17, D-30173 Hannover, Germany. iwiwiwi@web.de
authors.forename: Inken
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Wierstra
authors.forename: Jürgen
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Alves
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D049109:Cell Proliferation; D000072278:Forkhead Box Protein M1; D051858:Forkhead Transcription Factors / Q000235:genetics* / Q000502:physiology; D018390:Gene Targeting; D006801:Humans; D051379:Mice; D018345:Mice, Knockout; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000235:genetics; D020033:Protein Isoforms / Q000235:genetics; D015533:Transcriptional Activation / Q000235:genetics
chemical_list: C107585:FOXM1 protein, human; D000072278:Forkhead Box Protein M1; D051858:Forkhead Transcription Factors; C491524:Foxm1 protein, mouse; D020033:Protein Isoforms