Zinc Finger, CCHC Domain Containing Protein 13 (ZCCHC13)

ZCCHC13 appears to represent an intronless retrocopy of a related multi-exon gene located on chromosome 3. However, the CDS of this intronless gene remains relatively intact, it is conserved in other mammalian species, it is known to be transcribed, and it is therefore thought to encode a functional protein. The encoded protein contains six CCHC-type zinc fingers, and is thus thought to function as a transcription factorThis entry represents the CysCysHisCys (CCHC) type zinc finger domains, and have the sequence: C-X2-C-X4-H-X4-Cwhere X can be any amino acid, and number indicates the number of residues. These 18 residues CCHC zinc finger domains are mainly found in the nucleocapsid protein of retroviruses.