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 |
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Class: | TF |
Number of species containing the TAP: | 131 |
Number of available proteins: | 6936 |
Phylogenetic tree for Archeaplastida:
No tree was calculated yet.
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 |
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0 | 206 | 57.27 | 50.5 | 38.93 |