R2R3-type MYB transcription factors are implicated in drought stress, which is a primary factor limiting the growth and development of woody plants. The identification of R2R3-MYB genes in the Populus trichocarpa genome has been previously reported....
Lycium barbarum is a traditional medicinal and edible plant species in China, exhibiting notable salt tolerance that enables cultivation in salt-affected soils. However, intensifying soil salinization has rendered severe salt stress a critical limiti...
Transcription factors (TFs) play fundamental roles in the developmental processes of all living organisms. Squamosa Promoter Binding Protein-like (SBP/SBP-Box) is a major family of plant-specific TFs, which plays important roles in multiple processes...
Jasmonate ZIM-domain family proteins (JAZs) are repressors in the signaling cascades triggered by jasmonates (JAs). It has been proposed that JAs play essential roles in the sesquiterpene induction and agarwood formation processes in Aquilaria sinens...
The basic region/leucine zipper motif (bZIP) transcription factor family is one of the largest families of transcriptional regulators in plants. bZIP genes have been systematically characterized in some plants, but not in rapeseed (Brassica napus). I...
WRKY transcription factors, as the largest gene family in higher plants, play an important role in various biological processes including growth and development, regulation of secondary metabolites, and stress response. In this study, we performed ge...
Members of the plant-specific B3 transcription factor superfamily play important roles in various growth and developmental processes in plants. Even though there are many valuable studies on B3 genes in other species, little is known about the B3 sup...
The WRKY transcription factor (TF) family is one the largest plant-specific transcription factor families. It has been proven to play significant roles in multiple plant biological processes, especially stress response. Although many WRKY TFs have be...
Begonia semperflorens (B. semperflorens) is a popular ornamental plant widely used in landscapes such as plazas and flower beds, and it is also commonly grown as a potted plant indoors. It is known for its adaptability to high temperatures, drought,...
The APETALA2/Ethylene-Responsive Factor (AP2/ERF) superfamily is one of the largest transcription factor families in plants, playing diverse roles in development, stress response, and metabolic regulation. Despite their ecological and economic import...
Rosemary (Salvia rosmarinus) is a world-famous plant frequently subjected to various environmental stresses. Heat Shock Transcription Factor (HSF) has been shown to be essential for plant growth and for resistance to environmental stresses. This stud...
Most sweet cherry varieties exhibit typical gametophytic self-incompatibility (GSI) characteristics, necessitating careful configuration of pollination trees to ensure adequate yields. This requirement increases the costs associated with orchard labo...
The NAC (NAM, ATAF, and CUC) family is one of the largest families of plant-specific transcription factors. It is involved in many plant growth and development processes, as well as abiotic/biotic stress responses. So far, little is known about the N...
Vascular Plant One-Zinc finger (VOZ) transcription factors are pivotal regulators of plant growth and stress adaptation, yet their functional roles in Gossypium hirsutum, a key fiber crop, remain poorly characterized. In this study, we systematically...
Potato tuber formation is a complex developmental process regulated by coordinated interactions among multiple phytohormones and genes. TEOSINTE BRANCHED1/CYCLOIDEA/PROLIFERATING CELL FACTOR (TCP) transcription factors play important roles in plant g...
The NAC (NAM-ATAF1/2-CUC) transcription factor family is one of the largest plant-specific transcription factor families, playing an important role in plant growth and development and abiotic stress response. As a short-rotation woody plant, Salix in...
Basic leucine zipper (bZIP) transcription factors are widely involved in plant growth, development, environmental adaptation, and secondary metabolism. However, the bZIP gene family in Taxus yunnanensis has not been systematically characterized, and...
Heat shock transcription factors (HSFs) are among the most important regulators of plant responses to abiotic stimuli. They play a key role in numerous transcriptional regulatory processes. However, the specific characteristics of HSF gene family mem...
JC virus (JCV), as an archetype, establishes a lifelong latent or persistent infection in many healthy individuals. In immunocompromised patients, prototype JCV with variable mutations in the non-coding control region (NCCR) causes progressive multif...
Orchid flowers have evolved in concert with pollinators to form highly specialized structures resulting in zygomorphy. In dicotyledons, it is widely accepted that CYC-like genes are involved in the dorsoventral polarity establishment of flowers, whic...
The basic/helix–loop–helix (bHLH) family is a major family of transcription factors in plants. Although it has been reported that bHLH plays a defensive role against pathogen infection in plants, there is no comprehensive study on the bHL...
YABBY is among the specific transcription factor (TF) gene family in plants and plays an important role in the development of the leaves and floral organs. Its specific roles include lateral organ development, the establishment of dorsoventral polari...
The dehydration-responsive element-binding protein (DREB) is a subgroup member of the AP2/ERF family and actively participates in the response of plants to abiotic stress. Although DREB genes have been studied in a variety of plant species, there are...
Trihelix transcription factors are thought to feature a typical DNA-binding trihelix (helix-loop-helix-loop-helix) domain that binds specifically to the GT motif, a light-responsive DNA element. Members of the trihelix family are known to function in...
WRKY transcription factors are known to function in a number of plant processes. Here we have characterized 15 WRKY family genes of the important ornamental species chrysanthemum (Chrysanthemum morifolium). A total of 15 distinct sequences were isola...
Improvement of low nitrogen (LN) tolerance or nitrogen use efficiency (NUE) in crops is imperative for environment-friendly agriculture development. The basic helix-loop-helix (bHLH) transcription factors are involved in multiple abiotic stresses and...
Permutations on a set, endowed with function composition, build a group called a symmetric group. In addition to their algebraic structure, symmetric groups have two metrics that are of particular interest to us here: the Cayley distance and the Kend...
The plant-specific WUSCHEL-related homeobox (WOX) transcription factor gene family is important for plant growth and development but little studied in oil crops. We identified and characterized 58 putative WOX genes in Brassica napus (BnWOXs), which...
The Ethylene Responsive Factor (ERF) transcription factor family is important for regulating plant growth and stress responses. Although the expression patterns of ERF family members have been reported in many plant species, their role in Populus alb...
Uncaria rhynchophylla (Miq.) Miq. ex Havil, a traditional medicinal herb, is enriched with several pharmacologically active terpenoid indole alkaloids (TIAs). At present, no method has been reported that can comprehensively select and evaluate the ap...
MADS-box is a class of transcriptional regulators that are ubiquitous in plants and plays important roles in the process of plant growth and development. Identification and analysis of blueberry MADS-box genes can lay a foundation for their function...
Calmodulin-binding transcription activator (CAMTA) plays an important regulatory role in plant growth, development, and stress response. This study identified the phylogenetic relationships of the CAMTA family in 42 plant species using a genome-wide...
The nucleocytoplasmic large DNA viruses (NCLDV) possess unique characteristics that have drawn the attention of the scientific community, and they are now classified in the phylum Nucleocytoviricota. They are characterized by sharing many genes and h...
The plant-specific transcription factor TEOSINTE BRANCHED, CYCLOIDEA, AND PROLIFERATING CELL FACTOR (TCP) gene family plays vital roles in various biological processes, including growth and development, hormone signaling, and stress responses. Howeve...
Transcriptional responses to the appropriate temporal pattern of action potential firing are essential for long-term adaption of neuronal properties to the functional activity of neural circuits and environmental experience. However, standard transcr...
The transcriptomic analysis of microarray and RNA-Seq datasets followed our own bioinformatic pipeline to identify a transcriptional regulatory network of lung cancer. Twenty-six transcription factors are dysregulated and co-expressed in most of the...
(1) Background: WOX (WUSCHEL-related homologous box) is a plant-specific transcription factor involved in plant development and stress response. It has been reported to be involved in processes such as growth and development, stem cell division and d...
RNA decay is an important regulatory mechanism for gene expression at the posttranscriptional level. Although the main pathways and major enzymes that facilitate this process are well defined, global analysis of RNA turnover remains under-investigate...
The awareness of genome complexity brought a radical approach to the study of transcriptome, opening eyes to single RNAs generated from two or more adjacent genes according to the present consensus. This kind of transcript was thought to originate on...
Recent studies show a crucial role of post-transcriptional processes in the regulation of gene expression. Our research has shown that mRNA retention in the nucleus plays a significant role in such regulation. We studied larch microsporocytes during...
Mammalian hibernation requires extensive metabolic remodeling, but traditional transcriptomic approaches cannot distinguish between mRNA synthesis and degradation, leaving the evolutionary barriers governing its transcriptional control unclear. To ad...
LBD transcription factors are a class of transcription factors that regulate the formation of lateral organs, establish boundaries, and control secondary metabolism in plants. In this study, we identified 37 melon LBD transcription factors using bioi...
Background: The systematic identification of transcriptional repressors remains challenging, as current inference frameworks are predominantly optimized for accessible chromatin, leaving regulatory signals embedded within repressive domains underchar...
The human ALKBH gene family comprises nine Fe2+/α-ketoglutarate-dependent dioxygenases that catalyze the oxidative demethylation of DNA, RNA, and proteins, thereby influencing key cellular processes. Consequently, dysregulation of these enzymes...
Background: Neonatal health assessment is crucial for detecting and intervening in various disorders. Traditional gene expression analysis methods often require invasive procedures during sample collection, which may not be feasible or ideal for pret...
The RAV family is part of the B3 superfamily and is one of the most abundant transcription factor families in plants. Members have highly conserved B3 or AP2 DNA binding domains. Although the RAV family genes of several species have been systematical...
Background/Objectives: γ-aminobutyric acid (GABA), a non-protein amino, is synthesized from glutamic acid through the catalytic activity of glutamate decarboxylase (GAD). As a key signaling molecule, GABA plays a vital role in plant responses t...
Pinus massoniana Lamb. possesses considerable ecological and economic value. However, the rapid proliferation of pine wilt disease poses a significant threat to the growth and development of coniferous plants. Transcription factors play a crucial rol...
Transcription is known to be substage-specific in meiotic prophase I. If transcription is reactivated in the mid pachytene stage in mammals when synapsis is completed, then this process is observed in the zygotene stage in insects. The process of tra...
Transcription factors are an integral component of the cellular machinery responsible for regulating many biological processes, and they recognize distinct DNA sequence patterns as well as internal/external signals to mediate target gene expression....
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