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MAFG MAF bZIP transcription factor G

Gene ID: 4097, updated on 5-Mar-2024
Gene type: protein coding
Also known as: hMAF

Summary

Globin gene expression is regulated through nuclear factor erythroid-2 (NFE2) elements located in enhancer-like locus control regions positioned many kb upstream of alpha- and beta-gene clusters (summarized by Blank et al., 1997 [PubMed 9166829]). NFE2 DNA-binding activity consists of a heterodimer containing a ubiquitous small Maf protein (MafF, MIM 604877; MafG; or MafK, MIM 600197) and the tissue-restricted protein p45 NFE2 (MIM 601490). Both subunits are members of the activator protein-1-like superfamily of basic leucine zipper (bZIP) proteins (see MIM 165160).[supplied by OMIM, Mar 2010]

Genomic context

Location:
17q25.3
Sequence:
Chromosome: 17; NC_000017.11 (81918270..81931244, complement)
Total number of exons:
9

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