Pituitary homeobox 3 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the PITX3gene.[4][5]
Function
This gene encodes a member of the RIEG/PITX homeobox family, which is in the bicoid class of homeodomain proteins. Members of this family act as transcription factors. This protein is involved in lens formation during eye development,[5] and the specification and terminal differentiation of mesencephalic dopamine neurons in the substantia nigra compacta that are lost in Parkinson's disease.[6]
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^ a b c"Entrez Gene: PITX3 paired-like homeodomain transcription factor 3".
^Smidt MP, Smits SM, Bouwmeester H, Hamers FP, van der Linden AJ, Hellemons AJ, Graw J, Burbach JP (March 2004). "Early developmental failure of substantia nigra dopamine neurons in mice lacking the homeodomain gene Pitx3". Development. 131 (5): 1145–55. doi:10.1242/dev.01022. PMID 14973278. S2CID 20585228.
Further reading
Smits SM, Smidt MP (2006). "The role of Pitx3 in survival of midbrain dopaminergic neurons". Parkinson's Disease and Related Disorders. Journal of Neural Transmission. Supplementa. Vol. 70. pp. 57–60. doi:10.1007/978-3-211-45295-0_10. ISBN978-3-211-28927-3. PMID 17017509. {{cite book}}: |journal= ignored (help)
Hittner HM, Kretzer FL, Antoszyk JH, Ferrell RE, Mehta RS (January 1982). "Variable expressivity of autosomal dominant anterior segment mesenchymal dysgenesis in six generations". American Journal of Ophthalmology. 93 (1): 57–70. doi:10.1016/0002-9394(82)90700-0. PMID 6801987.
Berry V, Yang Z, Addison PK, Francis PJ, Ionides A, Karan G, Jiang L, Lin W, Hu J, Yang R, Moore A, Zhang K, Bhattacharya SS (August 2004). "Recurrent 17 bp duplication in PITX3 is primarily associated with posterior polar cataract (CPP4)". Journal of Medical Genetics. 41 (8): e109. doi:10.1136/jmg.2004.020289. PMC1735853. PMID 15286169.
Finzi S, Li Y, Mitchell TN, Farr A, Maumenee IH, Sallum JM, Sundin O (September 2005). "Posterior polar cataract: genetic analysis of a large family". Ophthalmic Genetics. 26 (3): 125–30. doi:10.1080/13816810500229124. PMID 16272057. S2CID 9519631.
Martinat C, Bacci JJ, Leete T, Kim J, Vanti WB, Newman AH, Cha JH, Gether U, Wang H, Abeliovich A (February 2006). "Cooperative transcription activation by Nurr1 and Pitx3 induces embryonic stem cell maturation to the midbrain dopamine neuron phenotype". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 103 (8): 2874–9. Bibcode:2006PNAS..103.2874M. doi:10.1073/pnas.0511153103. PMC1413837. PMID 16477036.
Bidinost C, Matsumoto M, Chung D, Salem N, Zhang K, Stockton DW, Khoury A, Megarbane A, Bejjani BA, Traboulsi EI (April 2006). "Heterozygous and homozygous mutations in PITX3 in a large Lebanese family with posterior polar cataracts and neurodevelopmental abnormalities". Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science. 47 (4): 1274–80. doi:10.1167/iovs.05-1095. PMID 16565358.
Burdon KP, McKay JD, Wirth MG, Russell-Eggit IM, Bhatti S, Ruddle JB, Dimasi D, Mackey DA, Craig JE (2006). "The PITX3 gene in posterior polar congenital cataract in Australia". Molecular Vision. 12: 367–71. PMID 16636655.
Sakazume S, Sorokina E, Iwamoto Y, Semina EV (2007). "Functional analysis of human mutations in homeodomain transcription factor PITX3". BMC Molecular Biology. 8: 84. doi:10.1186/1471-2199-8-84. PMC2093940. PMID 17888164.
