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Zinc finger protein 717

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 authorityQ18063443 ↗
Source-derived summary

Zinc finger protein 717 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the ZNF717 gene.

Function

This gene encodes a Kruppel-associated box (KRAB) zinc-finger protein, which belongs to a large group of transcriptional regulators in mammals. These proteins bind nucleic acids and play important roles in various cellular functions, including cell proliferation, differentiation and apoptosis, and in regulating viral replication and transcription. A pseudogene of this gene was identified on chromosome 1.

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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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“Zinc finger protein 717” enters the record as protein-coding gene in the species Homo sapiens. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Zinc, finger and protein can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “Zinc finger protein 717” 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.