Zinc Finger Protein 407 (ZNF407)

ZNF407 encodes a zinc finger protein whose exact function is not known. It may be involved in transcriptional regulation. Several alternatively spliced transcript variants encoding different isoforms have been found for this gene.

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 TFIIIA. They occur in nature as the part of transcription factors conferring DNA sequence specificity as the DNA-binding domain. They have also found use in protein engineering due to their modularity and have prospects as components of tools for use in therapeutic gene modulation and zinc finger nucleases. Zinc finger protein consists of anti-parallel hairpin motif. It consists of 2 beta strands, one alpha helix and a hairpin structure.