ZFX

This gene on the X chromosome is structurally similar to a related gene on the Y chromosome. It encodes a member of the krueppel C2H2-type zinc-finger protein family. The full-length protein contains an acidic transcriptional activation domain (AD), a nuclear localization sequence (NLS) and a DNA binding domain (DBD) consisting of 13 C2H2-type zinc fingers. Studies in mouse embryonic and adult hematopoietic stem cells showed that this gene was required as a transcriptional regulator for self-renewal of both stem cell types, but it was dispensable for growth and differentiation of their progeny. Multiple alternatively spliced transcript variants encoding different isoforms have been identified, but the full-length nature of some variants has not been determined. [provided by RefSeq, May 2010]

Description

Zinc finger protein X-linked

Tissue specificity

Low tissue specificity

Subcell location

Nucleoplasm, Nucleoli

Predicted location

Intracellular

Protein family

Mapped to neXtProt
Mapped to UniProt SWISS-PROT
Predicted intracellular proteins
Protein evidence (Ezkurdia et al 2014)
Transcription factors

Chromosome

X (24149173 - 24216255)

Ensembl ID

ENSG00000005889  (ver. 103.38)

Orthologs

Mouse Zfx: ENSMUSG00000079509

UniProt

P17010

neXtProt

NX_P17010

Human splice variants
Mouse splice variants

Protein structure