Background of the antigen
Zinc-finger proteins contain DNA-binding domains and have a wide variety of functions, most of which encompass some form of transcriptional activation or repression. The majority of zinc-finger proteins contain a Krüppel-type DNA binding domain and a KRAB domain, which is thought to interact with KAP1, thereby recruiting histone modifying proteins. As a member of the krueppel C2H2-type zinc-finger protein family, ZNF263 (Zinc finger protein 263), also known as FPM315 or ZKSCAN12 (Zinc finger protein with KRAB and SCAN domains 12), is a 683 amino acid nuclear protein that contains nine C2H2-type zinc fingers, one KRAB domain and one SCAN box domain. ZNF263 acts as a transcriptional repressor in the nucleus and is expressed in various tissues including heart, brain, placenta, lung, liver, skeletal muscle, kidney, pancreas, spleen, thymus, prostate, testis, ovary, small intestine, colon and leukocyte.
