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Gene information for MTERF (Homo sapiens)
(Information is obtained from NCBI Gene database)
Entrez gene ID7978
Official gene symbolMTERF
Full namemitochondrial transcription termination factor
Aliases,MGC131634,
Gene summaryThis gene encodes a mitochondrial transcription termination factor. This protein participates in attenuating transcription from the mitochondrial genome; this attenuation allows higher levels of expression of 16S ribosomal RNA relative to the tRNA gene downstream. The product of this gene has three leucine zipper motifs bracketed by two basic domains that are all required for DNA binding. There is evidence that, for this protein, the zippers participate in intramolecular interactions that establish the three-dimensional structure required for DNA binding. [provided by RefSeq]
LocationChromosome: 7   Locus: 7q21-q22
Gene position91510016 - 91502021  Map Viewer
Gene orientationminus
Gene size7996 bp
Gene sequence
OMIM ID602318