Database of mammalian genes
Home

Home Search Browse RAGs User guide FAQs Links Questions Contribute

Gene Protein Transcript Promoter Expression GO/PPI PubMed Cross reference

Gene information for MAX (Homo sapiens)
(Information is obtained from NCBI Gene database)
Entrez gene ID4149
Official gene symbolMAX
Full nameMYC associated factor X
Aliases,MGC10775,MGC11225,MGC18164,MGC34679,MGC36767,bHLHd4,bHLHd5,bHLHd6,bHLHd7,bHLHd8,orf1,
Gene summaryThe protein encoded by this gene is a member of the basic helix-loop-helix leucine zipper (bHLHZ) family of transcription factors. It is able to form homodimers and heterodimers with other family members, which include Mad, Mxi1 and Myc. Myc is an oncoprotein implicated in cell proliferation, differentiation and apoptosis. The homodimers and heterodimers compete for a common DNA target site (the E box) and rearrangement among these dimer forms provides a complex system of transcriptional regulation. Multiple alternatively spliced transcript variants have been described for this gene but the full-length nature for some of them is unknown. [provided by RefSeq]
LocationChromosome: 14   Locus: 14q23
Gene position65569227 - 65472892  Map Viewer
Gene orientationminus
Gene size96336 bp
Gene sequence
OMIM ID154950