Acts as a transcriptional regulator. Promotes transcription repression. Promotes transcription activation in differentiated myotubes (By similarity). Binds to double- and single-stranded DNA sequences. Binds to the transcription suppressor CATR sequence of the COX5B promoter (By similarity). Binds with high affinity to RNA molecules that contain AU-rich elements (AREs) found within the 3'-UTR of many proto-oncogenes and cytokine mRNAs. Binds both to nuclear and cytoplasmic poly(A) mRNAs. Binds to poly(G) and poly(A), but not to poly(U) or poly(C) RNA homopolymers. Binds to the 5'-ACUAGC-3' RNA consensus sequence. Interacts with ZNF148 (By similarity). Interacts with TNPO1. Shuttles between the nucleus and the cytoplasm in a TNPO1-dependent manner. Expressed in heart, brain, placenta, lung, liver, skeletal muscle, kidney, pancreas, spleen, thymus, prostate, testis, ovary, small intestine, colon and leukocytes. Expressed in myeloid leukemia, gastric adenocarcinoma, cervical carcinoma, hepatoma, fibrosarcoma, colon adenocarcinoma, epidermoid carcinoma, osteosarcoma and urinary bladder carcinoma cells. Up-regulated by 12-O-tetradecanoylphorbol-13-acetate (TPA) in macrophages and retinoic acid (RA) in granulocytes (at protein level). Down-regulated by IL4/interleukin-4. Dimethylation of Arg-408 is probably of the asymmetric type. The disease is caused by variants affecting the gene represented in this entry. Truncated N-terminus.