Myeloid zinc finger 1 is a
protein
Proteins are large biomolecules and macromolecules that comprise one or more long chains of amino acid residue (biochemistry), residues. Proteins perform a vast array of functions within organisms, including Enzyme catalysis, catalysing metab ...
that in humans is encoded by the ''MZF1''
gene
In biology, the word gene has two meanings. The Mendelian gene is a basic unit of heredity. The molecular gene is a sequence of nucleotides in DNA that is transcribed to produce a functional RNA. There are two types of molecular genes: protei ...
.
Interactions
MZF1 has been shown to
interact
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with
SCAND1.
In 2014, the laboratory of
Nathan H. Lents showed that MZF-1 induces the
GAPDH
Glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate dehydrogenase (abbreviated GAPDH) () is an enzyme of about 37kDa that catalyzes the sixth step of glycolysis and thus serves to break down glucose for energy and carbon molecules. In addition to this long establish ...
gene, something that must be considered when GAPDH is used as a loading control in experiments that may induce or perturb MZF-1.
The same group later showed that MZF-1 induces CTGF and NOV, two members of the CCN gene family.
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