Zinc finger and BTB domain-containing protein 16 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the ZBTB16 gene.
This gene is a member of the Krueppel C2H2-type zinc-finger protein family and encodes a zinc finger transcription factor that contains nine Kruppel-type zinc finger domains at the carboxyl terminus. This protein is located in the nucleus, is involved in cell cycle progression, and interacts with a histone deacetylase. Specific instances of aberrant gene rearrangement at this locus have been associated with acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL) [5] and physiological roles have been identified in mouse Natural Killer T cells [6] [7] and gamma-delta T cells. [8] Alternate transcriptional splice variants have been characterized in human. [9] [10]
Zinc finger and BTB domain-containing protein 16 has been shown to interact with:
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