MLX Interacting Protein Like
WS-BHLH
BHLHd14
MIO
WBSCR14
CHREBP
MONDOB
Williams-Beuren Syndrome Chromosomal Region 14 Protein
WS Basic-Helix-Loop-Helix Leucine Zipper Protein
Carbohydrate-Responsive Element-Binding Protein
Carbohydrate Response Element Binding Protein
Williams Beuren Syndrome Chromosome Region 14
Class D Basic Helix-Loop-Helix Protein 14
Williams-Beuren Syndrome Chromosome Region 14 Protein 1
Williams-Beuren Syndrome Chromosome Region 14 Protein 2
Williams-Beuren Syndrome Chromosome Region 14 Protein 3
MLX Interacting Protein-Like
MLX-Interacting Protein-Like
Mlx Interactor
MLX Interactor
BHLHD14
ChREBP
MLX
This gene encodes a basic helix-loop-helix leucine zipper transcription factor of the Myc/Max/Mad superfamily. This protein forms a heterodimeric complex and binds and activates, in a glucose-dependent manner, carbohydrate response element (ChoRE) motifs in the promoters of triglyceride synthesis genes. The gene is deleted in Williams-Beuren syndrome, a multisystem developmental disorder caused by the deletion of contiguous genes at chromosome 7q11.23. Alternative splicing results in multiple transcript variants. [provided by RefSeq, Dec 2015]
Forensic Context
A study in mice demonstrated that the MLXIPL is highly expressed in a specific lipogenic brown adipocyte subtype within brown adipose tissue and is essential for the identity of this cell population, as its genetic ablation in brown adipocytes led to the near-complete absence of these lipogenic adipocytes under all tested conditions [Behrens et al. DOI:10.1016/j.molmet.2025.102252].