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ReviewFrontiers in immunology2021

ZBTB Transcription Factors: Key Regulators of the Development, Differentiation and Effector Function of T Cells.

Zhong-Yan Cheng, Ting-Ting He, Xiao-Ming Gao, Ying Zhao, Jun Wang

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Review in Frontiers in immunology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 75 papers.

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75citing papers in PubMed
7.2field-weighted citation impact, top 2% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

75 citing papers in PubMed, 109 citations in OpenAlex.

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  8. Probing transcription factor subsets in gene regulatory networks.Algorithms for molecular biology : AMB · 2026
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  19. PULSAR: a Foundation Model for Multi-scale and Multi-cellular Biology.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025
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  20. Super-enhancer profiling reveals ThPOK/ZBTB7B, a CD4Cellular and molecular life sciences : CMLS · 2025
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15 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Zhong-Yan ChengInstitutes of Biology and Medical Sciences, Soochow University, Suzhou, China.
Ting-Ting HeInstitutes of Biology and Medical Sciences, Soochow University, Suzhou, China.
Xiao-Ming GaoInstitutes of Biology and Medical Sciences, Soochow University, Suzhou, China.
Ying ZhaoDepartment of Pathophysiology, School of Biology and Basic Medical Sciences, Soochow University, Suzhou, China.
Jun WangInstitutes of Biology and Medical Sciences, Soochow University, Suzhou, China.
Soochow University · CN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The development and differentiation of T cells represents a long and highly coordinated, yet flexible at some points, pathway, along which the sequential and dynamic expressions of different transcriptional factors play prominent roles at multiple steps. The large ZBTB family comprises a diverse group of transcriptional factors, and many of them have emerged as critical factors that regulate the lineage commitment, differentiation and effector function of hematopoietic-derived cells as well as a variety of other developmental events. Within the T-cell lineage, several ZBTB proteins, including ZBTB1, ZBTB17, ZBTB7B (THPOK) and BCL6 (ZBTB27), mainly regulate the development and/or differentiation of conventional CD4/CD8 αβ

Indexed as

Cell DifferentiationGene Expression RegulationMultigene FamilyAnimalsDisease SusceptibilityHumansLymphopoiesisProtein BindingSignal TransductionStructure-Activity RelationshipThymus GlandT-LymphocytesTranscription FactorsTranscription FactorsT-cell differentiationT-cell effector functionthymic T-cell developmenttranscriptional regulationZBTB proteins

Identifiers

PMID34349770
PMCPMC8326903
OpenAlexW3186348096

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