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Zinc Fingers

 
 
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Disease relevance of Zinc Fingers

 

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  • The Ikaros gene, which encodes a family of hemopoietic-specific zinc finger proteins, is described as a central regulator of lymphocyte differentiation [8].
  • Human mutations in TBX5, a gene encoding a T-box transcription factor, and SALL4, a gene encoding a zinc-finger transcription factor, cause similar upper limb and heart defects [9].
  • The other UBD, RUZ (Rabex-5 ubiquitin binding zinc finger) binds to a surface of Ub centered on Asp58(Ub) and distinct from the "canonical" Ile44(Ub)-based surface [10].
  • We show that yeast ESCRT-I links directly to ESCRT-II, through a tight interaction of Vps28 (ESCRT-I) with the yeast-specific zinc-finger insertion within the GLUE domain of Vps36 (ESCRT-II) [11].
  • Here we show that loss of him-8 function causes profound X chromosome-specific defects in homolog pairing and synapsis. him-8 encodes a C2H2 zinc-finger protein that is expressed during meiosis and concentrates at a site on the X chromosome known as the meiotic pairing center (PC) [12].
 

Chemical compound and disease context of Zinc Fingers

 

Biological context of Zinc Fingers

  • The t(11;22)(p13;q12) chromosomal translocation that defines DSRT produces a chimaeric protein containing the potential transactivation domain of the Ewing-sarcoma protein (EWS) fused to zinc fingers 2-4 of the Wilms tumour suppressor and transcriptional repressor WT1 (refs 2,3) [18].
  • At the chromosome 8 breakpoint we identify a novel gene, MOZ, which encodes a 2,004-amino-acid protein characterized by two C4HC3 zinc fingers and a single C2HC zinc finger in conjunction with a putative acetyltransferase signature [19].
  • OAZ uses distinct DNA- and protein-binding zinc fingers in separate BMP-Smad and Olf signaling pathways [20].
  • Nucleotide sequence analysis of a Zfy-2 cDNA suggests that it encodes a 783 amino acid protein with two domains: the amino-terminal portion is highly acidic, with 25% of its residues being glutamic or aspartic acid, while the carboxy-terminal domain contains 13 zinc fingers [21].
  • We here demonstrate that the t(3;8)(p21;q12) results in promoter swapping between PLAG1, a novel, developmentally regulated zinc finger gene at 8q12, and the constitutively expressed gene for beta-catenin (CTNNB1), a protein interface functioning in the WG/WNT signalling pathway and specification of cell fate during embryogenesis [22].
 

Anatomical context of Zinc Fingers

 

Associations of Zinc Fingers with chemical compounds

  • This domain contains a cysteine-rich zinc finger, and mutation of either of two cysteines abolishes binding to both sites [28].
  • These include the presence of four zinc finger domains and a region rich in proline and glutamine [29].
  • Significantly, the bmi-1 gene, which is expressed in diverse normal cells, encodes a Cys/His metal-binding motif (C3HC4) that resembles those in several DNA-binding proteins and defines a new category of zinc finger gene [30].
  • The mutant expresses normal levels of prespore-cell transcripts but fails to produce the spore transcript spiA. stkA encodes a predicted 99 kDa protein (STKA) with two putative C4 zinc fingers, one of which is a GATA-type finger, indicating that it may be a transcription factor [31].
  • Further replacement of five amino acids in the stem of the second zinc finger transforms the specificity to that of the thyroid hormone receptor [32].
 

Gene context of Zinc Fingers

  • This disorder is inherited as an autosomal dominant trait and has been mapped to 7p13 (S. Kang et al. Autosomal dominant Pallister-Hall syndrome maps to 7p13. Am. J. Hum. Genet. 59, A81 (1996)), co-localizing the PHS locus and the GLI3 zinc finger transcription factor gene [33].
  • Zfpm2 interacts specifically with the N-terminal zinc finger of Gata4 and represses Gata4-dependent transcription [34].
  • Peg3 mRNA is a 9 kb transcript encoding an unusual zinc finger protein with eleven widely spaced C2H2 type motifs and two groups of amino acid repeats [35].
  • Zfp148 belongs to a large family of C2H2-type zinc-finger transcription factors [36].
  • From this chromosomal region we have positionally cloned ZIC3, a gene encoding a putative zinc-finger transcription factor [37].
 

Analytical, diagnostic and therapeutic context of Zinc Fingers

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