Pathway Human Homo sapiens

Transcriptional regulation by RUNX1

R-HSA-8878171 in Reactome release 97: under Generic Transcription Pathway, with 225 genes placed in it by the mapping files and 12 child pathways in the hierarchy.

The same number in the other species

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The record
The genes
Parents and children

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01The record

Reactome's own record of this pathway

What this tells you

The pathway list, the hierarchy and the genes on this page are read from the files Reactome publishes for Reactome release 97, built into this site on 2026-09-09: the pathway list, the hierarchy relationship file and the two gene mapping files. The record card is the one live read, Reactome's own record of this pathway.

Reactome's download page describes the mapping files: Mapping files link the source database identifier to the lowest level pathway diagram or subset of the pathway, all levels of the pathway hierarchy or database identifier to all reactions. [R13] The gene list here is the all-levels mapping of NCBI Gene ids, filled from the all-levels mapping of Ensembl ids where the NCBI file has no row for a gene; each row names which file it came from by the shape of its source id. Each row carries the evidence codes the file writes for it, as written and unranked, and both where the file writes both; no page of Reactome's documentation the survey read defines the codes, so this page does not expand them. A gene id the identity files do not name is kept as the source's own id with no door rather than turned into a symbol.

On citing what a search finds, Reactome says: It should be remembered that while we strive to contain the most current and accurate data, Reactome should not be used in citations where other primary sources of information are available. [R12] The record card prints the literature Reactome attaches to a curated pathway for that reason. The data are public domain: All data in the Reactome database and files derived from that data are licensed under the Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication (CC0). User may copy, modify, and distribute these data, even for commercial purposes, without asking for permission. Attribution is encouraged but not required. [R10] The pathway illustrations are licensed apart, under CC BY 4.0, and none is shown here.

A gene on this list is one Reactome places in this pathway in this release, and that is all the row says: it does not say the gene is expressed in a tissue or associated with a disease, which are the other two explorers' questions, read from other sources. Reactome's papers of record are [R01] [R02].

[R01] Ragueneau E, Gong C, Sinquin P, Sevilla C, Beavers D, Grentner A, et al. (2026). The Reactome Knowledgebase 2026. Nucleic Acids Research 54:D673-D681. PMID 41251150, doi 10.1093/nar/gkaf1223.
[R02] Milacic M, Beavers D, Conley P, Gong C, Gillespie M, Griss J, et al. (2024). The Reactome Pathway Knowledgebase 2024. Nucleic Acids Research 52:D672-D678. PMID 37941124, doi 10.1093/nar/gkad1025.
[R10] Reactome, reactome.org. License Agreement. https://reactome.org/license, read 2026-09-09.
[R12] Reactome, reactome.org. Citing us. https://reactome.org/cite, read 2026-09-09.
[R13] Reactome, reactome.org. Download. https://reactome.org/download-data, read 2026-09-09.

Stable id: R-HSA-8878171.5
Class: Pathway
Species: Homo sapiens (human)
Inferred: no: a curated human pathway
Disease pathway: no
Released: 2017-06-12
Last updated: 2023-03-29
Events inside: 12, counted from the record

The RUNX1 (AML1) transcription factor is a master regulator of hematopoiesis (Ichikawa et al. 2004) that is frequently translocated in acute myeloid leukemia (AML), resulting in formation of fusion proteins with altered transactivation profiles (Lam and Zhang 2012, Ichikawa et al. 2013). In addition to RUNX1, its heterodimerization partner CBFB is also frequently mutated in AML (Shigesada et al. 2004, Mangan and Speck 2011).

The core domain of CBFB binds to the Runt domain of RUNX1, resulting in formation of the RUNX1:CBFB heterodimer. CBFB does not interact with DNA directly. The Runt domain of RUNX1 mediated both DNA binding and heterodimerization with CBFB (Tahirov et al. 2001), while RUNX1 regions that flank the Runt domain are involved in transactivation (reviewed in Zhang et al. 2003) and negative regulation (autoinhibition). CBFB facilitates RUNX1 binding to DNA by stabilizing Runt domain regions that interact with the major and minor grooves of the DNA (Tahirov et al. 2001, Backstrom et al. 2002, Bartfeld et al. 2002). The transactivation domain of RUNX1 is located C-terminally to the Runt domain and is followed by the negative regulatory domain. Autoinhibiton of RUNX1 is relieved by interaction with CBFB (Kanno et al. 1998).

Transcriptional targets of the RUNX1:CBFB complex involve genes that regulate self-renewal of hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) (Zhao et al. 2014), as well as commitment and differentiation of many hematopoietic progenitors, including myeloid (Friedman 2009) and megakaryocytic progenitors (Goldfarb 2009), regulatory T lymphocytes (Wong et al. 2011) and B lymphocytes (Boller and Grosschedl 2014).

RUNX1 binds to promoters of many genes involved in ribosomal biogenesis (Ribi) and is thought to stimulate their transcription. RUNX1 loss-of-function decreases ribosome biogenesis and translation in hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells (HSPCs). RUNX1 loss-of-function is therefore associated with a slow growth, but at the same time it results in reduced apoptosis and increases resistance of cells to genotoxic and endoplasmic reticulum stress, conferring an overall selective advantage to RUNX1 deficient HSPCs (Cai et al. 2015).

RUNX1 is implicated as a tumor suppressor in breast cancer. RUNX1 forms a complex with the activated estrogen receptor alpha (ESR1) and regulates expression of estrogen-responsive genes (Chimge and Frenkel 2013).

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02The genes

Genes Reactome places in this human pathway

The mapping files place 225 genes in this human pathway; showing 201 to 225, in pages of 100, sorted by symbol for reading. The order carries no ranking.

Genes Reactome places in this human pathway, page 3 of 3
Gene	Authority id	Mapping file id	Evidence codes
GeneSMARCD1	AuthorityHGNC:11106	Mapping file id6602 NCBI file	EvidenceTAS
GeneSMARCD2	AuthorityHGNC:11107	Mapping file id6603 NCBI file	EvidenceTAS
GeneSMARCD3	AuthorityHGNC:11108	Mapping file id6604 NCBI file	EvidenceTAS
GeneSMARCE1	AuthorityHGNC:11109	Mapping file id6605 NCBI file	EvidenceTAS
GeneSOCS3	AuthorityHGNC:19391	Mapping file id9021 NCBI file	EvidenceIEA
GeneSOCS4	AuthorityHGNC:19392	Mapping file id122809 NCBI file	EvidenceIEA
GeneSPI1	AuthorityHGNC:11241	Mapping file id6688 NCBI file	EvidenceIEA
GeneSRC	AuthorityHGNC:11283	Mapping file id6714 NCBI file	EvidenceIEA
GeneTAL1	AuthorityHGNC:11556	Mapping file id6886 NCBI file	EvidenceTAS
GeneTCF12	AuthorityHGNC:11623	Mapping file id6938 NCBI file	EvidenceTAS
GeneTCF3	AuthorityHGNC:11633	Mapping file id6929 NCBI file	EvidenceTAS
GeneTHBS1	AuthorityHGNC:11785	Mapping file id7057 NCBI file	EvidenceTAS
GeneTJP1	AuthorityHGNC:11827	Mapping file id7082 NCBI file	EvidenceTAS
GeneTNFRSF18	AuthorityHGNC:11914	Mapping file id8784 NCBI file	EvidenceTAS
GeneTNRC6A	AuthorityHGNC:11969	Mapping file id27327 NCBI file	EvidenceTAS
GeneTNRC6B	AuthorityHGNC:29190	Mapping file id23112 NCBI file	EvidenceTAS
GeneTNRC6C	AuthorityHGNC:29318	Mapping file id57690 NCBI file	EvidenceTAS
GeneTP73	AuthorityHGNC:12003	Mapping file id7161 NCBI file	EvidenceTAS
GeneUBA52	AuthorityHGNC:12458	Mapping file id7311 NCBI file	EvidenceTAS
GeneUBB	AuthorityHGNC:12463	Mapping file id7314 NCBI file	EvidenceTAS
GeneUBC	AuthorityHGNC:12468	Mapping file id7316 NCBI file	EvidenceTAS
GeneWDR5	AuthorityHGNC:12757	Mapping file id11091 NCBI file	EvidenceTAS
GeneYAF2	AuthorityHGNC:17363	Mapping file id10138 NCBI file	EvidenceTAS
GeneYAP1	AuthorityHGNC:16262	Mapping file id10413 NCBI file	EvidenceTAS
GeneZFPM1	AuthorityHGNC:19762	Mapping file id161882 NCBI file	EvidenceTAS

Evidence codes on this page: IEA, TAS, as the mapping file writes them; a row carrying two was written twice by the file, once under each. The mapping file id says which file placed the gene: an NCBI Gene id from NCBI2Reactome_All_Levels.txt, an Ensembl gene id from Ensembl2Reactome_All_Levels.txt. The two files can disagree about a code, so a row's codes are the one file's view. Measured by this site's build over this release on 2026-09-09: of the 138,908 human pathway-gene pairs both files place, 207 (0.149 per cent, over 47 genes) carry TAS in the Ensembl file where the NCBI rows carry IEA alone.

Reactome mapping files, the human rows for this pathway · Reactome release 97 · read 2026-09-09 · Reactome downloads"NCBI2Reactome_All_Levels.txt" and "Ensembl2Reactome_All_Levels.txt", Reactome, release 97, https://reactome.org/download-data/ (date of access 2026-09-09). Data CC0; attribution encouraged.

03The hierarchy

Parents and children in this release's hierarchy

Parents

Generic Transcription PathwayR-HSA-2124361,251 genes

Children

Reactome's hierarchy is a graph rather than a tree: a pathway can sit under more than one parent, and the gene counts are each pathway's own placements at every level under it, so a parent's count is not the sum of its children's.

Reactome, the human pathway list and hierarchy relationship file · Reactome release 97 · read 2026-09-09 · Reactome downloads"ReactomePathways.txt" and "ReactomePathwaysRelation.txt", Reactome, release 97, https://reactome.org/download-data/ (date of access 2026-09-09). Data CC0; attribution encouraged.