title: Expression of a novel Krüpple-like zinc-finger gene, ZNF382, in human heart.
abstract: With the aim of identifying genes involved in human heart development and disease, we have isolated a novel KRAB-related zinc-finger gene named ZNF382 from heart cDNA library. The ZNF382 gene has a predicted 548-amino acid open reading frame, encoding a putative 64kDa zinc-finger protein. The N-terminus of the ZNF382 coding region has a well-conserved Krüpple-associated box domain that consists of KRAB boxes A and B, whereas the C-terminus contains a Krüpple-type zinc-finger domain possessing nine C(2)H(2) zinc-finger motifs in tandem arrays. The ZNF382 gene is mapped to chromosome 19q13.13. Northern blot analysis indicates that a 2.9-kb transcript specific for ZNF382 is expressed at very early embryonic stage of human (at least earlier than gestation 34 day) and widely in human embryo tissues. At the adult stage, ZNF382 expression is restricted largely to heart tissue suggesting a potential role in heart development and function.
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Molecular Developmental Genetics, College of Life Sciences, Hunan Normal University, Changsha, 410081, Hunan, PR China.
authors.forename: Kaimei
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Luo
authors.forename: Wuzhou
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Yuan
authors.forename: Chuanbin
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Zhu
authors.forename: Yongqing
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Yuequn
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Weiqi
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Zeng
authors.forename: Wei
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Jiao
authors.forename: Mingyao
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Xiushan
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Wu
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D002874:Chromosome Mapping; D002888:Chromosomes, Human, Pair 19; D004268:DNA-Binding Proteins / Q000737:chemistry / Q000145:classification / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism*; D004622:Embryo, Mammalian / Q000378:metabolism*; D005318:Fetal Heart / Q000378:metabolism; D015870:Gene Expression; D018507:Gene Expression Regulation, Developmental; D006321:Heart / Q000196:embryology / Q000254:growth & development; D006801:Humans; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009206:Myocardium / Q000378:metabolism*; D010802:Phylogeny; D017434:Protein Structure, Tertiary; D051381:Rats; D016415:Sequence Alignment; D014018:Tissue Distribution; D014157:Transcription Factors / Q000737:chemistry / Q000145:classification / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism*; D016335:Zinc Fingers
chemical_list: D004268:DNA-Binding Proteins; D014157:Transcription Factors; C116326:ZNF382 protein, human; C485494:Zfp382 protein, rat