Molecular mechanisms of floral organ specification by MADS domain proteins
- Flower development is a model system to understand organ specification in plants. The identities of different types of floral organs are specified by homeotic MADS transcription factors that interact in a combinatorial fashion. Systematic identification of DNA-binding sites and target genes of these key regulators show that they have shared and unique sets of target genes. DNA binding by MADS proteins is not based on ‘simple’ recognition of a specific DNA sequence, but depends on DNA structure and combinatorial interactions. Homeotic MADS proteins regulate gene expression via alternative mechanisms, one of which may be to modulate chromatin structure and accessibility in their target gene promoters.
| Author details: | Wenhao Yan, Dijun ChenORCiDGND, Kerstin KaufmannORCiD |
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| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pbi.2015.12.004 |
| ISSN: | 1369-5266 |
| ISSN: | 1879-0356 |
| Pubmed ID: | https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26802807 |
| Title of parent work (English): | Current opinion in plant biology |
| Publisher: | Elsevier |
| Place of publishing: | London |
| Publication type: | Review |
| Language: | English |
| Year of first publication: | 2016 |
| Publication year: | 2016 |
| Release date: | 2020/03/22 |
| Volume: | 29 |
| Number of pages: | 9 |
| First page: | 154 |
| Last Page: | 162 |
| Funding institution: | Alexander-von-Humboldt Foundation; German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) |
| Organizational units: | Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Institut für Biochemie und Biologie |
| Peer review: | Referiert |
