chromobox protein homolog 6 (CBX6)

Function

• role in maintaining the transcriptionally repressive state of genes
• modifies chromatin, rendering it heritably changed in its expressibility (probable)
• component of a chromatin-associated polycomb complex (PcG) (putative)

Structure

contains 1 chromo domain

Compartment

nucleus (putative)

More general terms

• chromobox protein homolog
• phosphoprotein

Database

• Entrez gene: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?db=gene&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=Graphics&list_uids=23466
• Kegg: http://www.genome.jp/dbget-bin/www_bget?hsa:23466
• UniProt: http://www.uniprot.org/uniprot/O95503.html