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A tale of syndicate members named “gag knuckles”, “taz-two”, “hairpin”, “ribbons”, and “treble clef” is quite intriguing. Although they sound more like nicknames of a 1920’s bootlegging gang (at least to me) they are the formal nomenclature of a biochemical classification system, known commonly as zinc fingers (ZnF). The taxonomy of zinc fingers describes the…