bZIP

Description

Jakoby et al. (2002): In plants, basic region/leucine zipper motif (bZIP) transcription factors regulate processes including pathogen defence, light and stress signalling, seed maturation and flower development.

References:


1) Corrêa, LG; Riaño-Pachón, DM; Schrago, CG; dos Santos, RV; Mueller-Roeber, B; Vincentz, M. 2008. The role of bZIP transcription factors in green plant evolution: adaptive features emerging from four founder genes. PLoS ONE 3(8):e2944 PubMed
2) Foster, R; Izawa, T; Chua, NH. 1994. Plant bZIP proteins gather at ACGT elements. FASEB J. 8(2):192-200 PubMed
3) Hurst, HC. 1995. Transcription factors 1: bZIP proteins. Protein Profile 2(2):101-68 PubMed
4) Jakoby, M; Weisshaar, B; Dröge-Laser, W; Vicente-Carbajosa, J; Tiedemann, J; Kroj, T; Parcy, F; bZIP Research Group. 2002. bZIP transcription factors in Arabidopsis. Trends Plant Sci. 7(3):106-11 PubMed
5) Landschulz, WH; Johnson, PF; McKnight, SL. 1988. The leucine zipper: a hypothetical structure common to a new class of DNA binding proteins. Science 240(4860):1759-64 PubMed
6) Vinson, C; Acharya, A; Taparowsky, EJ. 2006. Deciphering B-ZIP transcription factor interactions in vitro and in vivo. Biochim. Biophys. Acta 1759(1-2):4-12 PubMed


Summary

Name: bZIP
Class: TF
Number of species containing the TAP: 131
Number of available proteins: 6936

Phylogenetic tree for Archeaplastida:

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TAP distribution:

The following table shows the distribution of bZIP over all species included in TAPscan. The values for e.g. a specific kingdom are shown in the tree below if you expand the tree for that kingdom.

Minimum Maximum Average Median Standard deviation
020657.2750.538.93

List of species containing bZIP sorted by kingdomcladesupergrouporderfamily:

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