Letter Z

Zinc finger

A finger-shaped fold in a protein that permits it to interact with DNA and RNA.

The fold is created by the binding of specific amino acids in the protein to a zinc atom.

Zinc-finger proteins regulate the expression of genes as well as nucleic acid recognition, reverse transcription and virus assembly

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