該基因是禽肉瘤病毒17的假定轉化基因。它編碼一種與病毒蛋白高度相似的蛋白質，并與特定靶DNA序列直接相互作用以調節基因表達。這個基因是無內含子的，被定位到1P32-P31，一個涉及人類惡性腫瘤易位和缺失的染色體區域。
This gene is the putative transforming gene of avian sarcoma virus 17. It encodes a protein which is highly similar to the viral protein, and which interacts directly with specific target DNA sequences to regulate gene expression. This gene is intronless and is mapped to 1p32-p31, a chromosomal region involved in both translocations and deletions in human malignancies.