| 2006 |
EBF3 directly binds the p21(cip1/waf1) promoter and regulates transcription from both p21(cip1/waf1) and p27(kip1) promoters, inducing cell cycle arrest and apoptosis with caspase-3 activation; cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitors p27(kip1) and p57(kip2) are persistently activated while cell survival/proliferation genes are suppressed. |
Reporter assays, chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP), overexpression with functional readouts (cell cycle analysis, caspase-3 activation) |
Cancer research |
High |
17018599
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| 2016 |
De novo missense variants in EBF3 affecting a conserved zinc finger motif reduce transcriptional activity and the ability to form heterodimers with wild-type EBF3, establishing that DNA binding and dimerization are required for EBF3 function in brain development. |
Transactivation (luciferase) assays, heterodimer formation assays with mutant proteins in cell lines, structural modeling |
American journal of human genetics |
High |
28017370 28017372 28017373
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| 2016 |
EBF3 missense mutations affecting the DNA-binding domain cause mislocalization of mutant proteins to the cytoplasm and reduce chromatin association, as demonstrated by subcellular fractionation; mutant EBF3 has reduced genome-wide DNA binding and gene-regulatory activity by ChIP-seq and RNA-seq. |
Subcellular fractionation, in situ chromatin association assay, ChIP-seq, RNA-seq, transactivation assays in HEK293T cells |
American journal of human genetics |
High |
28017373
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| 2014 |
Ebf3 is a target of miR-218 during dopaminergic (DA) neuron development; overexpression of Ebf3 at the neural precursor stage increases TH+ DA neuron number, while suppression reduces it, and miR-218-mediated regulation of Ebf3 controls terminal differentiation of DA neurons. |
Overexpression and knockdown in ES cell differentiation system, miRNA target validation, cell counting of TH+ neurons |
Brain research |
Medium |
25192643
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| 2017 |
Ebf3 is a target gene of the transcription factor Prdm8; Ebf3 knockdown causes severe defects in leading process formation and inhibits the multipolar-to-bipolar transition of migrating neocortical neurons. Ebf3 positively regulates NeuroD1 transcription and NeuroD1 overexpression partially rescues the migration defect. |
In utero electroporation-based knockdown, morphological analysis of migrating neurons, NeuroD1 overexpression rescue |
Biochemical and biophysical research communications |
Medium |
29113800
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| 2018 |
Ebf3 is expressed in CXCL12-abundant reticular (CAR)/LepR+ mesenchymal stem cells of bone marrow; deletion of Ebf3 in these cells impairs HSC niche function and causes osteosclerosis. Combined deletion of Ebf1 and Ebf3 leads to osteoblast differentiation of CAR cells with reduced HSC niche factor expression and complete marrow cavity occlusion, demonstrating that Ebf3 maintains mesenchymal stem cell identity and inhibits osteoblast differentiation. |
Conditional knockout mice, lineage tracing, histology, HSC functional assays |
Genes & development |
High |
29563184
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| 2018 |
EBF3-EGFP fusion protein localizes predominantly to the nucleus when expressed in HepG2 cells, establishing nuclear localization of EBF3. |
Fluorescence microscopy and Western blot of nuclear/cytoplasmic fractions of transfected cells |
Xi bao yu fen zi mian yi xue za zhi |
Low |
18845077
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| 2021 |
EBF3 directly binds the Vimentin promoter to transcriptionally upregulate it, promoting metastasis in nasopharyngeal carcinoma; EBF3 is epigenetically silenced by the EGR1/EZH2/HDAC9 complex via H3K27me3 at its promoter. |
ChIP, promoter reporter assays, RNA-seq, epigenetic complex characterization |
Cancer letters |
Medium |
34906623
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| 2023 |
Bmal1 recruits EZH2 to the EBF3 promoter to enhance H3K27me3-mediated methylation and suppress EBF3 expression; EBF3 in turn binds the ALOX15 promoter to enhance its expression and promote ferroptosis, establishing the Bmal1/EZH2 → EBF3 → ALOX15 → ferroptosis axis in AML. |
ChIP, promoter reporter assays, knockdown/overexpression, in vivo xenograft model, ferroptosis biochemical assays |
Cancer science |
Medium |
37271497
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| 2023 |
CXCL12 deletion from Ebf3+/LepR+ CAR cells markedly reduces HSCs and impairs their ability to generate B cell progenitors; CXCL12 maintains lymphoid-biased HSC repopulating ability in vitro, demonstrating that CAR cell-derived CXCL12 is required for HSC localization and lymphoid-biased maintenance. |
Conditional CXCL12 deletion from Ebf3+ cells, transplantation assays, in vitro CXCL12 treatment of HSCs |
Nature communications |
High |
37880234
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| 2020 |
Ebf3 is required in lateral plate mesenchyme cells (particularly tendon/connective tissue cells) at embryonic day 9.5–10.5 for sternum ossification; Ebf3 knockout leads to defective Runx2+ pre-osteoblast generation without affecting chondrogenesis, with upregulation of Egr1/2, Osr1 and Islet1+ cells and downregulation of Shox2. |
Knockout and conditional/temporal knockout mice, cell lineage analysis, gene expression profiling |
Development |
High |
32398354
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| 2024 |
EBF3 binds the CNTNAP4 promoter and directly activates CNTNAP4 transcription, protecting dopaminergic neurons from apoptosis in a Parkinson's disease model; m6A methylation (regulated by FTO) controls EBF3 mRNA stability and expression. |
Luciferase reporter assay, ChIP, DNA pulldown assay, CNTNAP4 knockdown rescue experiment, in vivo MPTP mouse model |
Cellular signalling |
Medium |
38479556
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| 2025 |
EBF3 transcriptionally activates ACADL by binding to its promoter, blocking nuclear YAP localization and canonical Hippo/YAP target genes (CTGF, CYR61, ANKRD1) to suppress breast cancer cell growth. |
Promoter binding assays, luciferase reporter, ACADL knockdown rescue, xenograft tumor model |
Pathology, research and practice |
Medium |
41270467
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| 2025 |
EBF3 transcriptionally represses CCL24 to remodel the tumor immune microenvironment in lung adenocarcinoma, reducing M2-like macrophage infiltration and increasing CD4+/CD8+ T cell recruitment; EBF3 also suppresses AKT and P38 phosphorylation. |
Overexpression/knockdown, ChIP/reporter assays for CCL24, conditioned medium macrophage polarization assay, syngeneic mouse model with immune flow cytometry, CCL24 rescue experiment |
Cellular oncology |
Medium |
42018103
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| 2025 |
SNORA47 interacts with EBF3 to facilitate translocation of ribosomal protein L11 (RPL11), which modulates c-Myc levels, establishing a SNORA47-EBF3-RPL11-c-Myc axis controlling breast cancer stemness. |
Co-immunoprecipitation/interaction assays, overexpression/knockdown with phenotypic readouts |
Molecular medicine |
Low |
40264043
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| 2022 |
EBF3 missense variants disrupting the zinc finger domain (ZNF) fail to restore viability in Drosophila and impair transcriptional activation in luciferase assays, whereas the recurrent DBD variant p.Arg209Trp partially rescues fly viability and preserves transcriptional activation, establishing a genotype-severity correlation. |
In vivo Drosophila UAS-GAL4 rescue assays, in vitro luciferase transcriptional activation assays |
Annals of neurology |
Medium |
35340043
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| 2017 |
Missense variants in the zinc knuckle of EBF3's DNA binding domain reduce DNA affinity, as predicted by homology-based atomic modeling and molecular dynamics simulations, consistent with experimental data for the paralogous residue in EBF1. |
Homology-based structural modeling, molecular dynamics simulations |
Cold Spring Harbor molecular case studies |
Low |
28487885
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| 2021 |
EBF3 binds promoters of neurodevelopmental disorder (NDD) genes in neuronal cells as shown by ChIP-seq, with enrichment for binding NDD genes involved in gene regulation (p=7.43×10-6, OR=1.87). |
ChIP-seq in neuronal cells, gene enrichment analysis |
Human genomics |
Medium |
34256850
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| 2024 |
In zebrafish ebf3a loss-of-function mutants, the cerebellum, hypothalamus, and hindbrain are smaller, cerebellar activity is strongly increased, and genes marking olfactory sensory neurons, the lateral line, and cerebellar Purkinje neurons are significantly downregulated, establishing Ebf3's role in sensory system and cerebellar development. |
Loss-of-function zebrafish mutant, RNA-sequencing, brain activity imaging, behavioral assays |
bioRxivpreprint |
Medium |
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