Specificity
Zinc finger proteins contain DNA-binding domains and have a wide variety of functions, most of which encompass some form of transcriptional activation or repression. The majority of zinc finger proteins contain a Kruppel-type DNA binding domain and a KRAB domain, which is thought to interact with KAP1, thereby recruiting histone modifying proteins. ZNF488 is a 340 amino acid transcriptional regulator belonging to the Kruppel C2H2-type zinc finger protein family. ZNF488 localizes to the nucleus and contains two C2H2-type zinc fingers. ZNF488 is encoded by a gene located on chromosome 10, which contains a plethora of interesting genes and represents between 4 and 4.5 percent of the total DNA in cells. Jackson-Weiss, Cowden and Usher syndromes are a few diseases related to genes on chromosome 10.
