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. 2020 Oct 6;8:e9952. doi: 10.7717/peerj.9952

Table 3. Summary of reported MRGs and their related functions.

MRGs Related functions
SCL/TAL1 master regulator of the adult hematopoietic (Courtial et al., 2012; Wehrspaun, Haerty & Ponting, 2015)
VEGF master regulator of mucosal immunity driving angiogenesis (Danese, 2008b)
PU.1 master regulator of hematopoiesis and bone marrow (Yang et al., 2012)
Sim1 master regulator of Drosophila neurogenesis (Eaton & Glasgow, 2006)
Gcm master regulator of nervous system development in Drosophila, parathyroid development, master regulator of expression and function regulation in mammals (Cattenoz & Giangrande, 2016)
FOXM1 master regulator of different stages of the cell cycle (Jeffery et al., 2017; Zona et al., 2014)
Blimp1 master regulator of B cell differentiation into plasma cells (John & Garrett-Sinha, 2009; Vrzalikova, Woodman & Murray, 2012)
Oct4 master regulator of embryonic stem cell self-renewal and pluripotency (Samardzija et al., 2017a)
Myc master regulator of cell performance (growth, proliferation, stem cell pluripotency, ribosomal biogenesis, etc.) (Grifoni & Bellosta, 2015; Holmberg Olausson, Nistér & Lindström, 2012; Kazan & Manners, 2013)
HIF master regulator of cellular responses to hypoxia (Liu, Semenza & Zhang, 2015; Semenza, 2014; Semenza, 2017)
CTCF master regulator of human epigenetics and genomic spatial organization (Golan-Mashiach et al., 2012)
FOXj1 master regulator of cilia generation program (Yu et al., 2008)
SinR master regulator of Bacillus subtilis biofilm formation (Chu et al., 2006; Stowe et al., 2014)
CtrA master regulator of the cell cycle of the bacillus (Gora et al., 2010; Laub et al., 2002; Pini et al., 2015)
FlhDC master regulator of flagellar genes (Chatterjee, Cui & Chatterjee, 2015; Cui et al., 2008; Stafford, Ogi & Hughes, 2005)
Fur master regulator of iron metabolism in Gram-negative bacteria (González et al., 2012; Huja et al., 2014)
CsgD master regulator of E. coli biofilm formation (Ogasawara, Yamamoto & Ishihama, 2010; Wen et al., 2017)
Spo0A master regulator of the pathogenesis of Bacillus subtilis spore formation (Fujita & Losick, 2005; Wolański & Jakimowicz, 2014)
CcpA master regulator of carbon catabolism regulation in Bacillus (Muscariello et al., 2013; Weeks et al., 2012a; Weeks et al., 2012b)
LuxR master regulator of quorum sensing (Ball, Chaparian & van Kessel, 2017; Pompeani et al., 2008)
WOR1 master regulator of white and opaque phenotypes of Candida albicans (Zhang et al., 2014)
P53 master regulator of human malignant tumors (Farnebo, Bykov & Wiman, 2010; Resnick et al., 2005)
P63 master regulator of epidermal development and differentiation (Soares & Zhou, 2018)
Nrf2 master regulator of redox homeostasis (Basak et al., 2017; Cores et al., 2020; Hayes & Dinkova-Kostova, 2017)
MITF master regulator of melanocyte development (Levy, Khaled & Fisher, 2006)
TFEB master regulator of lysosomal biogenesis and autophagy (Medina et al., 2015; Settembre et al., 2011)
MyoD master regulator of skeletal muscle gene expression programs (Aziz, Liu & Dilworth, 2010; Sunadome et al., 2014)
MicroRNAs (miR-10b*,miR21, miR-31,miR153, miR156, etc.) master regulator of gene expression in many physiological and pathological processes (Biagioni et al., 2012; Datta & Paul, 2015; Kaul & Krams, 2015; Liang et al., 2020; Miranda et al., 2010,Schmittgen, 2010; Stief et al., 2014; Voorhoeve, 2010)
PGC-1 α master regulator of mitochondrial gene expression (Fernandez-Marcos & Auwerx, 2011; Zhu et al., 2009)
Prox1 master regulator of lymphatic endothelial cell differentiation (Hong & Detmar, 2003; Kang et al., 2010; Ke & Yang, 2017)
AphA master regulator of quorum sensing (Sun et al., 2012; Van Kessel et al., 2013)
PPARgamma master regulator of fat formation (Lehrke & Lazar, 2005a; Sunadome et al., 2014)
foxp3 master regulator of regulatory T (Treg)cell development and function (Liston, 2010; Thornton & Shevach, 2019)
ComK master regulator of late competence genes (Jaskólska & Gerdes, 2015; Ogura, Hashimoto & Tanaka, 2002)