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Mus musculus Protein: Klf8
Summary
InnateDB Protein IDBP-180758.6
Last Modified 2014-10-13 [Report errors or provide feedback]
Gene Symbol Klf8
Protein Name Kruppel-like factor 8
Synonyms
Species Mus musculus
Ensembl Protein ENSMUSP00000044317
InnateDB Gene IDBG-180756 (Klf8)
Protein Structure
UniProt Annotation
Function Transcriptional repressor and activator. Binds to CACCC- boxes promoter elements. Also binds the GT-box of cyclin D1 promoter and mediates cell cycle progression at G(1) phase as a downstream target of focal adhesion kinase (FAK) (By similarity). {ECO:0000250}.
Subcellular Localization Nucleus {ECO:0000250}.
Disease Associations
Tissue Specificity
Comments
Interactions
Number of Interactions This gene and/or its encoded proteins are associated with 0 experimentally validated interaction(s) in this database.
They are also associated with 8 interaction(s) predicted by orthology.
Predicted by orthology
Total 8 [view]
Gene Ontology

Molecular Function
Accession GO Term
GO:0003677 DNA binding
GO:0046872 metal ion binding
Biological Process
GO:0006351 transcription, DNA-templated
GO:0006355 regulation of transcription, DNA-templated
Cellular Component
GO:0005634 nucleus
Protein Structure and Domains
PDB ID MGI:2442430
InterPro IPR007087 Zinc finger, C2H2
IPR015880 Zinc finger, C2H2-like
PFAM PF00096
PRINTS
PIRSF
SMART SM00355
TIGRFAMs
Post-translational Modifications
Modification
Cross-References
SwissProt Q8BLM0
PhosphoSite PhosphoSite-Q8BLM0
TrEMBL
UniProt Splice Variant
Entrez Gene 245671
UniGene Mm.489131
RefSeq XP_006528916
MGI ID
MGI Symbol Klf8
OMIM
CCDS CCDS30481
HPRD
IMGT
EMBL AK044185 BC070442
GenPept AAH70442 BAC31807

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Breuer et al., InnateDB: systems biology of innate immunity and beyond - recent updates and continuing curation. Nucl. Acids Res. (2013) 41 (D1) 

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