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 TFIIIA. 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.