title: A novel zinc finger gene ZNF468 with two co-expressional splice variants, ZNF468.1 and ZNF468.2.
abstract: A novel human zinc finger protein encoding gene ZNF468 was obtained from a fetal brain cDNA library. By BLAST-N analysis we found two different splice variants. We termed the two splice variants ZNF468.1 and ZNF468.2. By BLAST search against the human genome database, ZNF468 was mapped to 19q13.4. The ZNF468.1 cDNA has four exons, and the ZNF468.2 cDNA has one more, between the third and fourth exon. This extra exon creates a difference between the deduced protein N-termini of the two splice variants. The ZNF468.1 cDNA is 3906 bp in length, encoding a 522a a protein, and ZNF468.2 is 4024 bp, encoding a 469-aa-protein. Both proteins contain 11 C2H2-type zinc finger motifs at their C-termini. The N-terminus of the deduced protein of ZNF468.1 has a well-conserved Krüppel-associated box (KRAB) domain that consists of KRAB boxes A and B, whereas the protein of ZNF468.2 does not have the KRAB domain. Tissue distribution of the ZNF468 gene indicates that the two splice variants are widely expressed in normal human tissues, except in heart and brain, and they are also co-expressional.
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Genetic Engineering, Institute of Genetics, School of Life Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, P.R. China.
authors.forename: Liyun
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Sun
authors.forename: Shaohua
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Gu
authors.forename: Ni
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Dan
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Zheng
authors.forename: Yaqiong
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Sun
authors.forename: Dan
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Chaoneng
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Ji
authors.forename: Kang
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Ying
authors.forename: Yi
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Xie
authors.forename: Yumin
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Mao
mesh_terms: D017398:Alternative Splicing; D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D001483:Base Sequence; D002352:Carrier Proteins / Q000096:biosynthesis / Q000235:genetics*; D004268:DNA-Binding Proteins; D015723:Gene Library; D006801:Humans; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D016415:Sequence Alignment; D016335:Zinc Fingers / Q000235:genetics*
chemical_list: D002352:Carrier Proteins; D004268:DNA-Binding Proteins; C505220:ZNF468 protein, human