Forkhead box protein M1 (FOXM1) is a forkhead transcription factor that regulates expression of cell cycle genes essential for DNA replication and mitosis during organ repair and cancer progression []. It is regulated by the mitotic kinase Polo-like kinase 1 (Plk1) []. It binds promoter regions with a preference for tandem repeats of a consensus 'TAAACA' recognition sequence [].
