The Roles of Arabidopsis C1-2i Subclass of C2H2-type Zinc-Finger Transcription Factors.

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Key Laboratory for Tobacco Gene Resources, Tobacco Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Qingdao 266101, China.

Published: August 2019

The Cys2His2 (C2H2)-type zinc-finger protein (ZFP) family, which includes 176 members in , is one of the largest families of putative transcription factors in plants. Of the ZFP members, only 33 members are conserved in other eukaryotes, with 143 considered to be plant specific. C2H2-type ZFPs have been extensively studied and have been shown to play important roles in plant development and environmental stress responses by transcriptional regulation. The ethylene-responsive element binding-factor-associated amphiphilic repression (EAR) domain (GCC box) has been found to have a critical role in the tolerance response to abiotic stress. Many of the plant ZFPs containing the EAR domain, such as AZF1/2/3, ZAT7, ZAT10, and ZAT12, have been shown to function as transcriptional repressors. In this review, we mainly focus on the C1-2i subclass of C2H2 ZFPs and summarize the latest research into their roles in various stress responses. The role of C2H2-type ZFPs in response to the abiotic and biotic stress signaling network is not well explained, and amongst them, C1-2i is one of the better-characterized classifications in response to environmental stresses. These studies of the C1-2i subclass ought to furnish the basis for future studies to discover the pathways and receptors concerned in stress defense. Research has implied possible protein-protein interactions between members of C1-2i under various stresses, for which we have proposed a hypothetical model.

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6770587PMC
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