Everything about TAF2

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: TAF2A 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: TAF2 condensation in nuclear speckles links basal transcription factor TFIID to RNA splicing factorsInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: Deutsche StammeskundeThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: Cytoplasmic TAF2–TAF8–TAF10 complex provides evidence for nuclear holo–TFIID assembly from preformed submodulesCited 101 times
5. Go sideways: TAF4A closely related topic
6. Go sideways: TAF13A closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Cytoplasmic TAF2–TAF8–TAF10 complex provides evidence for nuclear holo–TFIID assembly from preformed submodules

  Simon Trowitzsch, Cristina Viola, Elisabeth Scheer · 2015 · Nature Communications · 101 citations

• Mapping the Initiator Binding Taf2 Subunit in the Structure of Hydrated Yeast TFIID

  Gabor Papai, Manish K. Tripathi, Christine Ruhlmann · 2009 · Structure · 46 citations

• Microcephaly Thin Corpus Callosum Intellectual Disability Syndrome Caused by Mutated TAF2

  Shlomit Hellman-Aharony, Pola Smirin-Yosef, Ayelet Halevy · 2013 · Pediatric Neurology · 39 citations

• The C Terminus of the RNA Polymerase II Transcription Factor IID (TFIID) Subunit Taf2 Mediates Stable Association of Subunit Taf14 into the Yeast TFIID Complex

  Jordan T. Feigerle, P. Anthony Weil · 2016 · Journal of Biological Chemistry · 19 citations

• Genome-wide localization analysis of a complete set of Tafs reveals a specific effect of the taf1 mutation on Taf2 occupancy and provides indirect evidence for different TFIID conformations at different promoters

  Kazushige Ohtsuki, Koji Kasahara, Katsuhiko Shirahige · 2009 · Nucleic Acids Research · 13 citations

• TAF2-Net: Triple-Branch Attentive Feature Fusion Network for Ultrasonic Flaw Detection

  Wenjie Li, Jie Qi, Haixin Sun · 2022 · IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement · 13 citations

• Taf2 mediates DNA binding of Taf14

  Brianna J. Klein, Jordan T. Feigerle, Jibo Zhang · 2022 · Nature Communications · 11 citations

• Phenotype associated with TAF2 biallelic mutations: A clinical description of four individuals and review of the literature

  Marion Lesieur-Sebellin, Yline Capri, Margot Grisval · 2021 · European Journal of Medical Genetics · 7 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• TAF2 condensation in nuclear speckles links basal transcription factor TFIID to RNA splicing factors

  Tanja Bhuiyan, Niccolò Arecco, Paulina Karen Mendoza Sanchez · 2025 · Cell Reports · 5 citations

• TAF2, within the TFIID complex, regulates the expression of a subset of protein-coding genes

  I-Hsin Cheng, Wen-Chieh Pi, Chung-Hao Hsu · 2024 · Cell Death Discovery · 4 citations

• TATA-box binding protein-associated factor 2 (TAF2) in hepatocyte survival and tumorigenesis

  Saranya Chidambaranathan Reghupaty, Suchismita Raha, Rachel Mendoza · 2025 · Hepatology · 2 citations

• Molecular mechanism of augmentation of oncogenic activity of MYC by TAF2 in HCC

  Suchismita Raha, Qiong Zhang, Devon Farrar · 2026 · Journal of Biological Chemistry · 1 citations

• Abstract 2022 Ubiquitin-Proteasome System-Mediated Regulation of the Conserved Transcription Factor TAF2

  Jannatul Ferdoush, Morgan Osborn, Selin Kaplanoglu · 2026 · Journal of Biological Chemistry · 0 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• 📕Deutsche StammeskundeRudolf Much · 1900
• 📕Typhoon Wings of 2nd TAF 1943-45Chris Thomas · 2006
• 📕Der südafrikanische MeridianbogenWilhelm Bahn · 1910
• 📕Structural and biochemical studies on human TAF2Martina Mijuskovic · 2007
• 📕Geologische Beschreibung des Gaussbergs : Mit Taf. 2-7 U. 2 Abb. , ausEmil Philippi · 1900
• 📕Die Crinoiden der Antarktis : Mit Taf. 2-10 U. 1 Abb. , ausAustin Hobart Clark, Ernst Vanhoeffen · 1900
• 2nd TAFChristopher F. Shores · 1970
• 📕2nd TAF Spitfire · 1995

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🔗 Related topics

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