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Zinc finger protein 398

protein-coding gene in the species Homo sapiens

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 27, 2023
Entity authorityQ18043130 ↗
Source-derived summary

Zinc finger protein 398 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the ZNF398 gene.

Function

This gene encodes a member of the Kruppel family of C2H2-type zinc-finger transcription factor proteins. The encoded protein acts as a transcriptional activator. Two transcript variants encoding distinct isoforms have been identified for this gene. Other transcript variants have been described, but their full length sequence has not been determined.

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This article incorporates text from the United States National Library of Medicine, which is in the public domain.

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This entry incorporates text from “Zinc finger protein 398” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.