BCL6B

B-cell CLL/lymphoma 6, member B
Identifiers
Symbols	BCL6B ; BAZF; ZBTB28; ZNF62
External IDs	OMIM: 608992 MGI: 1278332 HomoloGene: 7243 GeneCards: BCL6B Gene
Gene ontology Molecular function • RNA polymerase II regulatory region sequence-specific DNA binding • transcriptional repressor activity, RNA polymerase II transcription regulatory region sequence-specific binding • metal ion binding Cellular component • nucleus Biological process • negative regulation of transcription from RNA polymerase II promoter Sources: Amigo / QuickGO
Orthologs
Species	Human	Mouse
Entrez	255877	12029
Ensembl	ENSG00000161940	ENSMUSG00000000317
UniProt	Q8N143	O88282
RefSeq (mRNA)	NM_181844	NM_007528
RefSeq (protein)	NP_862827	NP_031554
Location (UCSC)	Chr 17: 7.02 – 7.03 Mb	Chr 11: 70.22 – 70.23 Mb
PubMed search

B-cell CLL/lymphoma 6 member B protein is a protein that in humans is encoded by the BCL6B gene.^[1][2]

References

1. Okabe S, Fukuda T, Ishibashi K, Kojima S, Okada S, Hatano M, Ebara M, Saisho H, Tokuhisa T (Jul 1998). "BAZF, a novel Bcl6 homolog, functions as a transcriptional repressor". Molecular and Cellular Biology 18 (7): 4235–44. PMC 109007. PMID 9632807.
2. "Entrez Gene: BCL6B B-cell CLL/lymphoma 6, member B (zinc finger protein)".

Further reading

• Sakashita C, Fukuda T, Okabe S, Kobayashi H, Hirosawa S, Tokuhisa T, Miyasaka N, Miura O, Miki T (Mar 2002). "Cloning and characterization of the human BAZF gene, a homologue of the BCL6 oncogene". Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications 291 (3): 567–73. doi:10.1006/bbrc.2002.6481. PMID 11855826.
• Fitzgibbon J, Neat MJ, Jones L, Foot N, Lister TA, Gupta RK (2000). "Assignment of B-cell lymphoma 6, member B (zinc finger protein) gene (BCL6B) to human chromosome 17p13.1 by in situ hybridization". Cytogenetics and Cell Genetics 89 (3-4): 218–9. doi:10.1159/000015617. PMID 10965127.
• Bray P, Lichter P, Thiesen HJ, Ward DC, Dawid IB (Nov 1991). "Characterization and mapping of human genes encoding zinc finger proteins". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 88 (21): 9563–7. doi:10.1073/pnas.88.21.9563. PMC 52758. PMID 1946370.
• Lichter P, Bray P, Ried T, Dawid IB, Ward DC (Aug 1992). "Clustering of C2-H2 zinc finger motif sequences within telomeric and fragile site regions of human chromosomes". Genomics 13 (4): 999–1007. doi:10.1016/0888-7543(92)90013-I. PMID 1505991.