What is a Snail protein?

It's a zinc finger protien that binds to E-cadherin* promoter to induce EMT (Epithelial Mezanchymal Transformation). It is mainly a gene regulator, it dissables the transcript of certain genes by binding to a promotor region known as "ebox". E-caherin.

*E-cadherin = a tight junction protein that make Epithelial cells to have epithelial shape and polarity.

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