DESCRIPTION:Jakoby et al. 2002: In plants, basic region/leucine zipper motif (bZIP) transcription factors regulate processes including pathogen defence, light and stress signalling, seed maturation and flower development.
Members of this family
SHOULD possess bZIP_1 bZIP_2 bZIP_Maf domains
SHOULD NOT possess HLH domain
References
Corrêa, LG; Riaño-Pachón, DM; Schrago, CG; dos Santos, RV; Mueller-Roeber, B; Vincentz, M. 2008. The role of bZIP transcription factors in green plant evolution: adaptive features emerging from four founder genes. PLoS ONE 3(8):e2944 PUBMEDID:18698409
Foster, R; Izawa, T; Chua, NH. 1994. Plant bZIP proteins gather at ACGT elements. FASEB J. 8(2):192-200 PUBMEDID:8119490
Hurst, HC. 1995. Transcription factors 1: bZIP proteins. Protein Profile 2(2):101-68 PUBMEDID:7780801
Landschulz, WH; Johnson, PF; McKnight, SL. 1988. The leucine zipper: a hypothetical structure common to a new class of DNA binding proteins. Science 240(4860):1759-64 PUBMEDID:3289117
Vinson, C; Acharya, A; Taparowsky, EJ. 2006. Deciphering B-ZIP transcription factor interactions in vitro and in vivo. Biochim. Biophys. Acta 1759(1-2):4-12 PUBMEDID:16580748