ZNF346 explained

Zinc finger protein 346 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the ZNF346 gene.^{[1] [2]}

The protein encoded by this gene is a nucleolar, zinc finger protein that preferentially binds to double-stranded (ds) RNA or RNA/DNA hybrids, rather than DNA alone. Mutational studies indicate that the zinc finger domains are not only essential for dsRNA binding, but are also required for its nucleolar localization. The encoded protein may be involved in cell growth and survival.^[2]

Further reading

• Hartley JL, Temple GF, Brasch MA . DNA cloning using in vitro site-specific recombination. . Genome Res. . 10 . 11 . 1788–95 . 2001 . 11076863 . 10.1101/gr.143000 . 310948 .
• Wiemann S, Weil B, Wellenreuther R, etal . Toward a catalog of human genes and proteins: sequencing and analysis of 500 novel complete protein coding human cDNAs. . Genome Res. . 11 . 3 . 422–35 . 2001 . 11230166 . 10.1101/gr.GR1547R . 311072 .
• Strausberg RL, Feingold EA, Grouse LH, etal . Generation and initial analysis of more than 15,000 full-length human and mouse cDNA sequences. . Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. . 99 . 26 . 16899–903 . 2003 . 12477932 . 10.1073/pnas.242603899 . 139241 . 2002PNAS...9916899M . free .
• Ota T, Suzuki Y, Nishikawa T, etal . Complete sequencing and characterization of 21,243 full-length human cDNAs. . Nat. Genet. . 36 . 1 . 40–5 . 2004 . 14702039 . 10.1038/ng1285 . free .
• Chen T, Brownawell AM, Macara IG . Nucleocytoplasmic shuttling of JAZ, a new cargo protein for exportin-5. . Mol. Cell. Biol. . 24 . 15 . 6608–19 . 2004 . 15254228 . 10.1128/MCB.24.15.6608-6619.2004 . 444848 .
• Gerhard DS, Wagner L, Feingold EA, etal . The status, quality, and expansion of the NIH full-length cDNA project: the Mammalian Gene Collection (MGC). . Genome Res. . 14 . 10B . 2121–7 . 2004 . 15489334 . 10.1101/gr.2596504 . 528928 .
• Wiemann S, Arlt D, Huber W, etal . From ORFeome to biology: a functional genomics pipeline. . Genome Res. . 14 . 10B . 2136–44 . 2004 . 15489336 . 10.1101/gr.2576704 . 528930 .
• Mehrle A, Rosenfelder H, Schupp I, etal . The LIFEdb database in 2006. . Nucleic Acids Res. . 34 . Database issue . D415–8 . 2006 . 16381901 . 10.1093/nar/gkj139 . 1347501 .

Notes and References

1. Yang M, May WS, Ito T . JAZ requires the double-stranded RNA-binding zinc finger motifs for nuclear localization . J Biol Chem . 274 . 39 . 27399–406 . Nov 1999 . 10488071 . 10.1074/jbc.274.39.27399 . free .
2. Web site: Entrez Gene: ZNF346 zinc finger protein 346.