Interferon Regulatory Factors
"Interferon Regulatory Factors" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A family of transcription factors that share an N-terminal HELIX-TURN-HELIX MOTIF and bind INTERFERON-inducible promoters to control GENE expression. IRF proteins bind specific DNA sequences such as interferon-stimulated response elements, interferon regulatory elements, and the interferon consensus sequence.
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D050835
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D12.644.360.024.302 D12.776.157.057.050 D12.776.260.504 D12.776.476.024.385 D12.776.930.332
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