TY - JOUR AU - Shen, Pan AU - Xu, Aishi AU - Hou, Yushan AU - Wang, Huqiang AU - Gao, Chao AU - He, Fuchu AU - Yang, Dong PY - 2021 DA - 2021/01/22 TI - Conserved paradoxical relationships among the evolutionary, structural and expressional features of KRAB zinc-finger proteins reveal their special functional characteristics JO - BMC Molecular and Cell Biology SP - 7 VL - 22 IS - 1 AB - One striking feature of the large KRAB domain-containing zinc finger protein (KZFP) family is its rapid evolution, leading to hundreds of member genes with various origination time in a certain mammalian genome. However, a comprehensive genome-wide and across-taxa analysis of the structural and expressional features of KZFPs with different origination time is lacking. This type of analysis will provide valuable clues about the functional characteristics of this special family. SN - 2661-8850 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s12860-021-00346-w DO - 10.1186/s12860-021-00346-w ID - Shen2021 ER -