title: Novel human BTB/POZ domain-containing zinc finger protein ZNF295 is directly associated with ZFP161.
abstract: Human ZNF295 protein harbors a BTB/POZ domain and multiple krüppel (C(2)H(2)) type zinc finger domains, and thus belongs to a family of POK (POZ and krüppel) transcription factor. We have identified many transcript variants generated by the alternative splicing in 5' non-coding exons, an intra-exonic splicing in a coding region, and the use of three polyadenylation signals in the 3' UTR. The intra-exonic splicing removes 603-bp coding sequence, and thus ZNF295 gene produces two protein isoforms: ZNF295L with 1066 amino acid residues and ZNF295S with 865 amino acid residues, containing 9 and 5 zinc finger domains, respectively. ZNF295 is ubiquitously expressed in human fetal and adult tissues. Analysis of transcription activity of ZNF295 using various promoter-reporters demonstrated that ZNF295 acts as a transcription repressor, and contains two separate regions for repression activity: the BTB/POZ domain and the central region between BTB/POZ and ZF domains. Both ZNF295L and ZNF295S could interact not only with themselves and each other, but also with another POK protein ZFP161 known to function as a transcription repressor and an activator. We postulated that ZNF295 may be involved in the bi-directional control of gene expression in concert with ZFP161.
authors.affiliation: Department of Molecular Biology, Keio University School of Medicine, 35 Shinanomachi, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 160-8582, Japan.
authors.forename: Jun
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Jun
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Kudoh
authors.forename: Atsushi
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Takayanagi
authors.forename: Nobuyoshi
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Shimizu
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D002460:Cell Line; D003001:Cloning, Molecular; D004268:DNA-Binding Proteins / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D005091:Exons / Q000235:genetics; D020869:Gene Expression Profiling; D006801:Humans; D007438:Introns / Q000235:genetics; D051741:Kruppel-Like Transcription Factors; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D011485:Protein Binding; D017434:Protein Structure, Tertiary; D021381:Protein Transport; D012097:Repressor Proteins / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D016415:Sequence Alignment; D014157:Transcription Factors / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D014158:Transcription, Genetic / Q000235:genetics; D016335:Zinc Fingers
chemical_list: D004268:DNA-Binding Proteins; D051741:Kruppel-Like Transcription Factors; D012097:Repressor Proteins; D014157:Transcription Factors; C489978:ZBTB14 protein, human; C497010:ZBTB21 protein, human