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PHF1

PHD finger protein 1 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the PHF1 gene.[1][2][3]

Function

Function

This gene encodes a protein with significant sequence similarity to Drosophila Polycomblike. The encoded protein contains a zinc finger-like PHD (plant homeodomain) finger which is distinct from other classes of zinc finger motifs and which shows the typical Cys4-His-Cys3 arrangement. PHD finger genes are thought to belong to a diverse group of transcriptional regulators possibly affecting eukaryotic gene expression by influencing chromatin structure. Two transcript variants have been found for this gene.[3]

References

References

  1. Coulson M, Robert S, Eyre HJ, Saint R (March 1998). “The identification and localization of a human gene with sequence similarity to Polycomblike of Drosophila melanogaster”. Genomics. 48 (3): 381–3. doi:10.1006/geno.1997.5201. PMID 9545646.
  2. Hong Z, Jiang J, Lan L, Nakajima S, Kanno S, Koseki H, Yasui A (May 2008). “A polycomb group protein, PHF1, is involved in the response to DNA double-strand breaks in human cell”. Nucleic Acids Research. 36 (9): 2939–47. doi:10.1093/nar/gkn146. PMC 2396414. PMID 18385154.
  3. 3.0 3.1 “Entrez Gene: PHF1 PHD finger protein 1”.
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