Entrez Summary: This gene encodes a nuclear protein which interacts with the tumor suppressor retinoblastoma 1. The two interacting proteins are thought to act as a transcriptional repressor for promoters which are activated by the E2F1 transcription factor. This protein contains a Kruppel-associated box (KRAB), which is a transcriptional repressor motif. Read-through transcripts that include exons from the downstream gene LOC389458 are expressed from this locus. [provided by RefSeq, Mar 2011].
UniProt Summary: May repress E2F-dependent transcription. May promote AR- dependent transcription. {ECO:0000269|PubMed:10702291, ECO:0000269|PubMed:14664718}.
Pfam DomainsGO Terms
Pfam Domains
KRAB
zf-C2H2
GO Terms
nucleic acid binding
zinc ion binding
negative regulation of transcription, DNA-templated
negative regulation of nucleic acid-templated transcription
negative regulation of RNA biosynthetic process
negative regulation of RNA metabolic process
negative regulation of cellular macromolecule biosynthetic process
negative regulation of nucleobase-containing compound metabolic process
negative regulation of macromolecule biosynthetic process
negative regulation of cellular biosynthetic process