A study on the distribution of 37 well conserved families of C2H2 zinc finger genes in eukaryotes.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The C2H2 zinc-finger (ZNF) containing gene family is one of the largest and most complex gene families in metazoan genomes. These genes are known to exist in almost all eukaryotes, and they constitute a major subset of eukaryotic transcription factors. The genes of this family usually occur as clusters in genomes and are thought to have undergone a massive expansion in vertebrates by multiple tandem duplication events (BMC Evol Biol 8:176, 2008).

Results

In this study, we combined two popular approaches for homolog detection, Reciprocal Best Hit (RBH) (Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 95:6239-6244, 1998) and Hidden-Markov model (HMM) profiles search (Bioinformatics 14:755-763, 1998), on a diverse set of complete genomes of 124 eukaryotic species ranging from excavates to hu

SUBMITTER: Seetharam A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3701560 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature