Zinc Finger Protein Transcription Factor
Zinc finger transcription factors or ZF-TFs, are transcription factors composed of a zinc finger binding domain and any of a variety of transcription-factor effector-domains which exert their modulatory effect in the vicinity of any sequence to which the protein domain binds.
Zinc finger protein transcription factors can be encoded by genes small enough to fit a number of such genes into a single vector, allowing the medical intervention and control of expression of multiple genes and the initiation of an elaborate cascade of events. In this respect, it is also possible to target a sequence which is common to multiple (usually functionally related) genes in order to control the transcription of all these genes with a single transcription factor. Alternatively, it is possible to target a family of related genes by targeting and modulating the expression of the endogenous transcription factor(s) which control(s) them. They also have the advantage that the targeted sequence need not be symmetrical unlike with most other DNA-binding motifs based on natural transcription factors which bind as dimers.
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