The EDLL motif: a potent plant transcriptional activation domain from AP2/ERF transcription factors

• Published in: The Plant journal : for cell and molecular biology Vol. 70; no. 5; pp. 855 - 865
• Main Authors: Tiwari, Shiv B., Belachew, Alemu, Ma, Siu Fong, Young, Melinda, Ade, Jules, Shen, Yu, Marion, Colleen M., Holtan, Hans E., Bailey, Adina, Stone, Jeffrey K., Edwards, Leslie, Wallace, Andreah D., Canales, Roger D., Adam, Luc, Ratcliffe, Oliver J., Repetti, Peter P.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford, UK Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.06.2012; Blackwell
• Subjects: Amino Acid Motifs; Amino Acid Sequence; Amino acids; Arabidopsis - genetics; Arabidopsis - metabolism; Arabidopsis Proteins - genetics; Arabidopsis Proteins - metabolism; Arabidopsis thaliana; Biological and medical sciences; Biology and morphogenesis of the reproductive apparatus. Photoperiodism, vernalisation; Cloning, Molecular; CONSTANS; Deoxyribonucleic acid; DNA; DNA-Binding Proteins - genetics; DNA-Binding Proteins - metabolism; Escherichia coli - genetics; Escherichia coli - metabolism; flowering; Flowers - metabolism; Flowers - physiology; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; Gene Expression Regulation, Plant; Genes, Plant; Genes, Reporter; Genetics; Molecular and cellular biology; Molecular genetics; Molecular Sequence Data; Multiprotein Complexes - genetics; Multiprotein Complexes - metabolism; NF‐Y; Plant biology; Plant physiology and development; Plants, Genetically Modified - genetics; Plants, Genetically Modified - metabolism; Plants, Genetically Modified - physiology; Promoter Regions, Genetic; Protein Structure, Tertiary; Proteins; Protoplasts - cytology; Protoplasts - metabolism; Recombinant Fusion Proteins - genetics; Recombinant Fusion Proteins - metabolism; Repressor Proteins - genetics; Repressor Proteins - metabolism; Time Factors; Transcription Factors - genetics; Transcription Factors - metabolism; Transcription. Transcription factor. Splicing. Rna processing; Transcriptional Activation; transcriptional regulation; Transfection; Vegetative and sexual reproduction, floral biology, fructification; NF-Y; Vegetals; Transcription; transcriptional regulation; Activation; Gene expression; CONSTANS; Arabidopsis thaliana; Plant; Regulation(control); Cruciferae; Dicotyledones; Angiospermae; Flowering; Spermatophyta; Transcription factor

Summary In plants, the ERF/EREBP family of transcriptional regulators plays a key role in adaptation to various biotic and abiotic stresses. These proteins contain a conserved AP2 DNA‐binding domain and several uncharacterized motifs. Here, we describe a short motif, termed ‘EDLL’, that is present i...