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Zinc finger protein — A zinc finger protein is a DNA binding protein domain comprised of zinc fingers ranging from two in the Drosophila regulator ADR1, the more common three in mammalian Sp1 up to nine in TFIIIA. They occur in nature as the part of transcription… … Wikipedia
Zinc finger protein transcription factor — Zinc finger protein transcription factors or ZFP TFs, consisting of activators and repressors are transcription factors composed of a zinc finger protein domain (ZFP) and any of a variety of transcription factor effector domains which exert their … Wikipedia
Zinc finger protein 165 — Zinc finger protein 165, also known as ZNF165, is a human gene.cite web | title = Entrez Gene: ZNF165 zinc finger protein 165| url = http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?Db=gene Cmd=ShowDetailView TermToSearch=7718| accessdate = ] PBB Summary … Wikipedia
MUT (zinc finger protein) — MUT is a three finger zinc finger protein derived from Zif268. It binds the DNA target sequence 5 GCG GAC GCG 3 … Wikipedia
Zinc finger chimera — Zinc finger protein chimera are chimeric proteins composed of a DNA binding zinc finger protein domain and another domain through which the protein exerts its effect. The effector domain may be a transcriptional activator (A) or repressor… … Wikipedia
Zinc finger nuclease — Zinc finger nucleases (ZFNs) are artificial restriction enzymes generated by fusing a zinc finger DNA binding domain to a DNA cleavage domain. Zinc finger domains can be engineered to target desired DNA sequences and this enables zinc finger… … Wikipedia
Zinc finger and BTB domain-containing protein 16 — Zinc finger and BTB domain containing 16, also known as ZBTB16, is a human gene. PBB Summary section title = summary text = This gene is a member of the Krueppel C2H2 type zinc finger protein family and encodes a zinc finger transcription factor… … Wikipedia
zinc finger — n any of a class of proteins that typically possess tandem repeats of fingerlike loops of amino acids with each loop containing a zinc binding site at its base consisting of two molecules of cysteine and two molecules of histidine and that… … Medical dictionary
Zinc finger — A zinc finger is a large superfamily of protein domains that can bind to DNA. A zinc finger consists of two antiparallel beta; strands, and an α helix. The zinc ion is crucial for the stability of this domain type in the absence of the metal ion… … Wikipedia
zinc finger — noun : any of a class of proteins that typically possess tandem repeats of fingerlike loops of amino acids with each loop containing a zinc binding site at its base consisting of two molecules of cysteine and two molecules of histidine and that… … Useful english dictionary
