"CYS2-HIS2 Zinc Fingers" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A zinc finger motif of approximately 30 amino acids with the general sequence X2-Cys-X2,4-Cys-X12-His-X3,4,5-His that forms a simple beta sheet-beta sheet-alpha helix fold stabilized by zinc ions. It recognizes and binds to a variety of eukaryotic DNA sequences and is very common among sequence-specific DNA BINDING PROTEINS and TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS.
| Descriptor ID |
D000070580
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| MeSH Number(s) |
G02.111.570.820.709.275.500.985.250
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| Concept/Terms |
CYS2-HIS2 Zinc Fingers- CYS2-HIS2 Zinc Fingers
- CYS2 HIS2 Zinc Fingers
- CYS2-HIS2 Zinc Finger
- Finger, CYS2-HIS2 Zinc
- Fingers, CYS2-HIS2 Zinc
- Zinc Finger, CYS2-HIS2
- Zinc Fingers, CYS2-HIS2
- C2H2 Zinc Fingers
- C2H2 Zinc Finger
- Finger, C2H2 Zinc
- Fingers, C2H2 Zinc
- Zinc Finger, C2H2
- Zinc Fingers, C2H2
- CYS2-HIS2 Zinc Finger Motifs
- CYS2 HIS2 Zinc Finger Motifs
- CYS2HIS2 Zinc Fingers
- CYS2HIS2 Zinc Finger
- Finger, CYS2HIS2 Zinc
- Fingers, CYS2HIS2 Zinc
- Zinc Finger, CYS2HIS2
- Zinc Fingers, CYS2HIS2
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