Title:

Plant heat shock transcription factors: divergence in structure and function

Subtitle:

Plant heat shock transcription factors: divergence in structure and function

Creator:

Czamecka-Vemer, Eva ; Gurley, William B.

Publisher:

Committee on Biotechnology PAS ; Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry PAS

Date issued/created:

1999

Subject and Keywords:

biotechnology

Abstract:

A multitude of heat shock transcription factors (HSFs) have been isolated and characterizedfrom various plant species (17-23). Based on a phylogeny analysis of the DNA binding domainsand organization of oligomerization domains, they have been assigned to class A and B of theplant HSF family (20,24 and this paper). None of the tested soybean or Arahidopsis HSF classB members were able to function as transcriptional activators and are, therefore, considered tobe inert (26,59). Conversely, class A HSFs from tomato and Arabidopsis displayed an intrinsiciranscriptional activation potential (26,50). There seems to be variation among plant class AHSFs regarding their transcriptional activation functions: some play a key role in activation ofthe heat shock response, while others act in an auxiliary capacity as HSF activity boosters (54).In contrast, the class B inert HSFs are able to trons-attenuate the transcriptional activity ofactivator HSFs (26). We postulated that heat shock regulation in plants may differ from metazoans by partitioning negative and positive functional domains onto separate HSF proteins (59).In plants two classes of HSFs exist: class A members which function as activators of HSP geneexpression, and a novel class B (inert HSFs) which is largely specialized for repression, orattenuation, of the heat shock response.

Relation:

Biotechnologia, vol.46, 3 (1999)-.

Volume:

46

Issue:

3

Start page:

125

End page:

142

Resource type:

Text

Detailed Resource Type:

Article

Format:

application/pdf

Resource Identifier:

0860-7796 ; IChB B-42

Source:

Library of Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry PAS

Language:

eng

Language of abstract:

eng

Temporal coverage:

1988-2010

Rights:

Creative Commons Attribution BY-SA 4.0 license

Terms of use:

Copyright-protected material. [CC BY-SA 4.0] May be used within the scope specified in Creative Commons Attribution BY-SA 4.0 license, full text available at:

Digitizing institution:

Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Science

Original in:

Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Science

Projects co-financed by:

Operational Program Digital Poland, 2014-2020, Measure 2.3: Digital accessibility and usefulness of public sector information; funds from the European Regional Development Fund and national co-financing from the state budget.

Access:

Open