“…The transcription factors shown to positively regulate p53 transcription include c-myc (Kirch et al, 1999;Lee and Rho, 2000), NF-kB (Pei et al, 1999;Benoit et al, 2000), YY1/NF1 (Lee et al, 1998(Lee et al, , 1999Nayak and Das, 1999), Ap1 (Kirch et al, 1999), and the HoxA5 homeobox containing gene product (Raman et al, 2000). Members of the PAX family are the only mammalian nuclear proteins shown to repress p53 transcription through a binding site present in the ®rst non-coding exon (Stuart et al, 1995).…”