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Designing a Western blot for Zinc finger protein 42? The guide has the expected band size, antibodies backed by real blot images, the controls to run alongside, and protocols taken from published papers.
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Facts about Zinc finger protein 42.
Involved in the reprogramming of X-chromosome inactivation during the Purchase of pluripotency.
Required for efficient elongation of TSIX, a non-coding RNA antisense to XIST.Binds DXPas34 enhancer within the TSIX promoter. Involved in ES cell self-renewal.
| Mouse | |
|---|---|
| Gene Name: | Zfp42 |
| Uniprot: | P22227 |
| Entrez: | 22702 |

| Belongs to: |
|---|
| krueppel C2H2-type zinc-finger protein family |

FLJ20086; KIAA1584; MGC21637; MGC61687; Rex1; Rex-1; SUHW4; Suppressor of hairy wing homolog 4; ZFP42; zinc finger protein 280D; Zinc finger protein 634; ZNF634suppressor of hairy wing homolog 4 (Drosophila)
Mass (kDA):
32.398 kDA

| Mouse | |
|---|---|
| Location: | 8 A4|8 23.89 cM |
| Sequence: | 8; |
Restricted to testis, to germ cells in the early stages of spermatogenesis. Not expressed in spermatids, nor spermatozoa. Expressed in embryonic stem (ES) cells.



PMID: 2511439 by Hosler B.A., et al. Expression of REX-1, a gene containing zinc finger motifs, is rapidly reduced by retinoic acid in F9 teratocarcinoma cells.
PMID: 8474450 by Hosler B.A., et al. An octamer motif contributes to the expression of the retinoic acid- regulated zinc finger gene Rex-1 (Zfp-42) in F9 teratocarcinoma cells.