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IRF4 is a master transcription factor of plasma cells and a protein myeloma cells cannot do without. Lenalidomide and its successors lower IRF4 by destroying the two factors, Ikaros and Aiolos, that keep it switched on. This dossier gathers the 0 products (0 approved), 0 trials, 0 pathways and 0 resistance routes in the corpus that involve it, with external identifiers so it can be joined to UniProt, ChEMBL, Open Targets and the rest of biology.

Biology

IRF4 is not bound by any corpus drug; it is lowered as a consequence of Ikaros and Aiolos degradation, which is why it sits at the end of the immunomodulatory drug mechanism alongside MYC.

Where it is found
  • Multiple myeloma (dependency; lowered by immunomodulatory drugs)
  • Diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (golcadomide trials)
Class: transcription · Gene: IRF4 · Facts checked 2026-09-22 · Target page

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Query for this target: (TITLE:"IRF4" OR ABSTRACT:"IRF4" OR TITLE:"MUM1" OR ABSTRACT:"MUM1" OR TITLE:"LSIRF" OR ABSTRACT:"LSIRF" OR TITLE:"interferon regulatory factor 4" OR ABSTRACT:"interferon regulatory factor 4") AND (cancer OR tumor OR tumour OR oncology OR carcinoma OR lymphoma OR leukemia OR leukaemia OR myeloma OR sarcoma OR melanoma OR glioma). Results are unfiltered search hits about IRF4, not a curated reading list.

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The dossier as machine-readable JSON: identifiers from HGNC, Ensembl, UniProt and ChEMBL, products with status, trials, pathways, hotspots, open questions and assays. The full entity record is in the open API at /api/v1/entities/irf4.json. Licence CC BY-NC 4.0.