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C2orf3

GC-rich sequence DNA-binding factor is a protein that in humans is encoded by the C2orf3 gene.[1][2][3][4]

The first mRNA transcript isolated for this gene was part of an artificial chimera derived from two distinct gene transcripts and a primer used in the cloning process (see Genbank accession M29204). A positively charged amino terminus present only in the chimera was determined to bind GC-rich DNA, thus mistakenly thought to identify a transcription factor gene.[4]

References

References

  1. Johnson AC, Kageyama R, Popescu NC, Pastan I (Feb 1992). “Expression and chromosomal localization of the gene for the human transcriptional repressor GCF”. J Biol Chem. 267 (3): 1689–94. PMID 1370479.
  2. Kageyama R, Pastan I (Jan 1990). “Molecular cloning and characterization of a human DNA binding factor that represses transcription”. Cell. 59 (5): 815–25. doi:10.1016/0092-8674(89)90605-3. PMID 2556218.
  3. Anthoni H, Zucchelli M, Matsson H, Muller-Myhsok B, Fransson I, Schumacher J, Massinen S, Onkamo P, Warnke A, Griesemann H, Hoffmann P, Nopola-Hemmi J, Lyytinen H, Schulte-Korne G, Kere J, Nothen MM, Peyrard-Janvid M (Apr 2007). “A locus on 2p12 containing the co-regulated MRPL19 and C2ORF3 genes is associated to dyslexia”. Hum Mol Genet. 16 (6): 667–77. doi:10.1093/hmg/ddm009. PMID 17309879.
  4. 4.0 4.1 “Entrez Gene: C2orf3 chromosome 2 open reading frame 3”.
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