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TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE
Volume 18, Issue 5, Pages 267-276Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE LONDON
DOI: 10.1016/j.tplants.2012.09.001
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- RIKEN Structural Genomics/Proteomics Initiative (RSGI)
- National Project on Protein Structural and Functional Analyses, Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology
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The families of the plant-specific transcription factors (TFs) are defined by their characteristic DNA-binding domains (DBDs), such as AP2/ERF, B3, NAC, SBP, and WRKY. Recently, three-dimensional structures of the DBDs, including those in complexes with DNA, were determined by NMR spectroscopy and X-ray crystallography. In this review we summarize the functional and evolutionary implications arising from structure analyses. The unexpected structural similarity between B3 and the noncatalytic DBD of the restriction endonuclease EcoRII allowed us to build structural models of the B3/DNA complex. Most of the DBDs of plant-specific TFs are likely to have originated from endonucleases associated with transposable elements. After the DBDs have been established in unicellular eukaryotes, they experienced extensive plant-specific expansion, by acquiring new functions.
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