Sal-like 1 (Drosophila), also known as SALL1, is a protein which in humans is encoded by the SALL1 gene. [5] [6] As the full name suggests, it is one of the human versions of the spalt (sal) gene known in Drosophila .
The protein encoded by this gene is a zinc finger transcriptional repressor and may be part of the NuRD histone deacetylase (HDAC) complex. [5]
Defects in this gene are a cause of Townes–Brocks syndrome (TBS) as well as branchio-oto-renal syndrome (BOR). Two transcript variants encoding different isoforms have been found for this gene. [5]
SALL1 has been shown to interact with TERF1 [7] and UBE2I. [8]
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