Protein Name MAX dimerization protein MLX
Organism Homo sapiens
Gene ID 6945
Gene Symbol

MLX

UniProt Q9UH92 (MLX_HUMAN)
Relationships Total Number of functionally related compound(s) : 34
Total Number of Articles : 40
Description

MAX dimerization protein MLX

Gene Summary

The product of this gene belongs to the family of basic helix-loop-helix leucine zipper (bHLH-Zip) transcription factors. These factors form heterodimers with Mad proteins and play a role in proliferation, determination and differentiation. This gene product may act to diversify Mad family function by its restricted association with a subset of the Mad family of transcriptional repressors, namely, Mad1 and Mad4. Alternatively spliced transcript variants encoding different isoforms have been identified for this gene. [provided by RefSeq, Jul 2008]

synonyms
  • max-like protein X
  • BigMax protein
  • MAX-like bHLHZIP protein
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Properties