Zinc Finger, AN1-Type Domain Protein 3 (ZFAND3)

A zinc finger protein is a DNA-binding protein domain consisting of zinc fingers ranging from two in the Drosophila regulator ADR1, the more common three in mammalian Sp1 up to nine in TF_IIIA. They occur in nature as the part of transcription factors conferring DNA sequence specificity as the DNA-binding domain.

Lopez-Fernandez and del Mazo (1996) cloned mouse Tex27 from a testis cDNA library by subtractive hybridization. Northern blot analysis detected a 1-kb transcript expressed exclusively in adult mouse testis. Tex27 was not detected in neonatal testis.The International Radiation Hybrid Mapping Consortium mapped the TEX27 gene to chromosome 6.