Transcription Factors Associated with Abiotic and Biotic Stress Tolerance and Their Potential for Crops Improvement
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. The Regulatory Functions of Plant TFs in Response to Abiotic and Biotic Stresses
3. NAC TFs
4. MYB TFs
5. WRKY TFs
6. ERF/DREB TFs
7. bZIP TFs
8. Others
9. Non-Coding RNAs Regulate Gene Expression
10. Concluding Remarks and Future Perspectives
Author Contributions
Funding
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
Abbreviations
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Transcription factor databases | Website |
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Plant Transcription Factor Database | http://planttfdb.gao-lab.org/ |
MOROKOSHI Sorghum Transcriptome Database | http://sorghum.riken.jp/morokoshi/Home.html |
Grass Transcription Factor Database | https://grassius.org/grasstfdb.php |
iTAK-transcription Factor Database | http://itak.feilab.net/cgi-bin/itak/index.cgi |
Sorghum Functional Genomic Database | http://structuralbiology.cau.edu.cn/sorghum/index.html |
Phytozome database | https://phytozome.jgi.doe.gov/pz/portal.html# |
PlnTFDB | http://plntfdb.bio.uni-potsdam.de/v3.0/ |
TF Family | DNA-binding Domain | Cis-acting Element | Structural Features |
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NAC | NAC domain | NACRS (TCNACACGCATGT) | NAC domain consist of 150 amino acids residues in N-terminal and variable transcription regulatory in their C-terminal. |
MYB | MYB domain | MYBR (TAACNA/G) | MYB domain composed of multiple repeats each repeat about 52 amino acids which forming a helix–turn–helix (HTH) structure. |
WRKY | WRKYGQK domain | W-box (TTGACT/C) | WRKY domain is ~60 amino acid residues in length, and also has a zinc-finger structure at the C-terminus which either Cx4-5Cx22-23HxH or Cx7Cx23HxC. |
ERF/DREB | AP2/ERF domain | GCC box (AGCCGCC) and (TACCGACAT) | Composed of 60 amino acids with conserved domain consist of Three parallel β-sheets and putative amphiphilic α-helix. |
bZIP | bZIP domain | C-box (GACGTC), A-box (TACGTA), G-box (CACGTG), PB-like (TGAAAA), and GLM (GTGAGTCAT) | bZIP domain consist of ~16 amino acid residues which containing nuclear localization signal followed by an invariant N-x7-R/K motif contacts the DNA. |
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Baillo, E.H.; Kimotho, R.N.; Zhang, Z.; Xu, P. Transcription Factors Associated with Abiotic and Biotic Stress Tolerance and Their Potential for Crops Improvement. Genes 2019, 10, 771. https://doi.org/10.3390/genes10100771
Baillo EH, Kimotho RN, Zhang Z, Xu P. Transcription Factors Associated with Abiotic and Biotic Stress Tolerance and Their Potential for Crops Improvement. Genes. 2019; 10(10):771. https://doi.org/10.3390/genes10100771
Chicago/Turabian StyleBaillo, Elamin Hafiz, Roy Njoroge Kimotho, Zhengbin Zhang, and Ping Xu. 2019. "Transcription Factors Associated with Abiotic and Biotic Stress Tolerance and Their Potential for Crops Improvement" Genes 10, no. 10: 771. https://doi.org/10.3390/genes10100771