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MZF1

Myeloid zinc finger 1 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the MZF1 gene.[1][2]

Interactions

Interactions

MZF1 has been shown to interact with SCAND1.[3] In 2014, the laboratory of Nathan H. Lents showed that MZF-1 induces the GAPDH gene, something that must be considered when GAPDH is used as a loading control in experiments that may induce or perturb MZF-1.[4] The same group later showed that MZF-1 induces CTGF and NOV, two members of the CCN gene family.[5]

References

References

  1. Hromas R, Collins SJ, Hickstein D, Raskind W, Deaven LL, O’Hara P, Hagen FS, Kaushansky K (September 1991). “A retinoic acid-responsive human zinc finger gene, MZF-1, preferentially expressed in myeloid cells”. J Biol Chem. 266 (22): 14183–7. PMID 1860835.
  2. “Entrez Gene: MZF1 myeloid zinc finger 1”.
  3. Sander TL, Haas AL, Peterson MJ, Morris JF (April 2000). “Identification of a novel SCAN box-related protein that interacts with MZF1B. The leucine-rich SCAN box mediates hetero- and homoprotein associations”. J. Biol. Chem. 275 (17): 12857–12867. doi:10.1074/jbc.275.17.12857. PMID 10777584.
  4. Piszczatowski RT, Rafferty BJ, Rozado A, Tobak S, Lents NH (2014). “The glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate dehydrogenase gene (GAPDH) is regulated by myeloid zinc finger 1 (MZF-1) and is induced by calcitriol”. Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 451 (1): 137–41. doi:10.1016/j.bbrc.2014.07.082. PMID 25065746.
  5. Piszczatowski RT. “Myeloid Zinc Finger 1 (MZF-1) Regulates Expression of theCCN2/CTGFandCCN3/NOVGenes in the Hematopoietic Compartment”. Journal of Cellular Physiology. 230 (11): 2634–2639. doi:10.1002/jcp.25021.
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