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PLANT PHYSIOLOGY
Volume 169, Issue 1, Pages 371-378Publisher
AMER SOC PLANT BIOLOGISTS
DOI: 10.1104/pp.15.00788
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [31170221, 31325002]
- Ministry of Agriculture of China [2014ZX08009-003]
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The VQ motif-containing proteins (designated as VQ proteins) are a class of plant-specific proteins with a conserved and single short FxxhVQxhTG amino acid sequence motif. VQ proteins regulate diverse developmental processes, including responses to biotic and abiotic stresses, seed development, and photomorphogenesis. In this Update, we summarize and discuss recent advances in our understanding of the regulation and function of VQ proteins and the role of the VQ motif in mediating transcriptional regulation and protein-protein interactions in signaling pathways. Based on the accumulated evidence, we propose a general mechanism of action for the VQ protein family, which likely defines a novel class of transcriptional regulators specific to plants.
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