A Comprehensive Analysis of MicroProteins Reveals Their Potentially Widespread Mechanism of Transcriptional Regulation

• Published in: Plant physiology (Bethesda) Vol. 165; no. 1; pp. 149 - 159
• Main Authors: Magnani, Enrico, de Klein, Niek, Nam, Hye-In, Kim, Jung-Gun, Pham, Kimberly, Fiume, Elisa, Mudgett, Mary Beth, Rhee, Seung Yon
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States American Society of Plant Biologists 01.05.2014; Oxford University Press ; American Society of Plant Biologists
• Subjects: Animals; Arabidopsis - genetics; Arabidopsis - immunology; Arabidopsis - metabolism; Arabidopsis Proteins - metabolism; Disease Resistance - immunology; Evolution; Evolution, Molecular; Flowers - physiology; Gene expression regulation; Gene Expression Regulation, Plant; Genes; GENES, DEVELOPMENT, AND EVOLUTION; Life Sciences; Phylogeny; Plant Diseases - immunology; Plants; Proteins; Salt tolerance; Time Factors; Transcription factors; Transcription Factors - metabolism; Transcription, Genetic; Transcriptional regulatory elements; Yeasts

Truncated transcription factor-like proteins called microProteins (miPs) can modulate transcription factor activities, thereby increasing transcriptional regulatory complexity. To understand their prevalence, evolution, and function, we predicted over 400 genes that encode putative miPs from Arabido...