Cold responsive gene transcription becomes more complex

Chunzhao Zhao; Zhaobo Lang; Jian-Kang Zhu

doi:10.1016/j.tplants.2015.06.001

Cold responsive gene transcription becomes more complex

Trends Plant Sci. 2015 Aug;20(8):466-8. doi: 10.1016/j.tplants.2015.06.001. Epub 2015 Jun 10.

Authors

Chunzhao Zhao¹, Zhaobo Lang², Jian-Kang Zhu³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA.
² Shanghai Center for Plant Stress Biology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200032, China.
³ Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA; Shanghai Center for Plant Stress Biology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200032, China. Electronic address: jkzhu@purdue.edu.

Abstract

CBF transcription factors, which play important roles in cold acclimation, regulate the expression of approximately 170 cold-responsive genes, termed the CBF regulon. Recent work by Park et al. showed that CBF regulon genes and other cold-responsive genes are regulated by a complex network that involves many early cold-induced transcription factors.

Keywords: Arabidopsis; CBF regulon; cold stress; transcriptional regulatory network.

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Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
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Arabidopsis / genetics*
Arabidopsis Proteins / genetics*
Cold Temperature*
Gene Expression Regulation, Plant*
Regulon / genetics*

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Arabidopsis Proteins

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