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At many of these genes, glucose repression is mediated, at least in part, by the glucose-dependent repressor Mig1, a zinc-finger protein that binds in vitro to DNA consensus sites consisting of a GC-rich core and flanking AT sequences [ 4, 5].
As an example of functional duplication, we note that more than 60% of the entire zinc-finger (ZNF) families are mapped to chromosome 19, restricted to six large tandemly duplicated gene clusters spanning the chromosome.
TTP (also referred to as NuP475, TIS11, or GOS24) is a member of the family of zinc-finger proteins that was originally identified through genetic screens designed to identify immediate early response genes [ 15 16 17 18 ] . TTP was shown to be an unusually proline-rich protein with a predicted molecular weight of 33.
CSE chr9p_0053719 is located in the 17707984-17709816 region of human chromosome 9. In the corresponding mouse region, transcript mCT3199 was predicted in the Celera database and a zinc-finger protein basonuclin-like gene (XM_143875) was also annotated by NCBI.
We initially identified NRG1 in our studies by the isolation of a high-copy-number plasmid encoding a fragment of Nrg1, lacking the zinc-finger domain.