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The SUPERMAN protein is an active repressor whose carboxy‐terminal repression domain is required for the development of normal flowers

Year: 2002

Type: article

Abstract: SUPERMAN was identified as a putative regulator of transcription that acts in floral development, but its function remains to be clarified. We demonstrate here that SUPERMAN is an active repressor whose repression domain is located in the carboxy-terminal region. Ectopic expression of SUPERMAN that lacked the repression domain resulted in a phenotype similar to that of superman mutants, demonstrating that the repression activity of SUPERMAN is essential for the development of normal flowers. Constitutive expression of SUPERMAN resulted in a severe dwarfism but did not affect cell size, indicating that SUPERMAN might regulate genes that are involved in cell division.

Source: FEBS Letters

DOI: 10.1016/s0014-5793(02)02435-3

Authors: Keiichiro Hiratsu, Masaru Ohta, Kyoko Matsui, Masaru Ohme-Takagi

Institution: National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology

Language: English

Topic: Plant Molecular Biology Research

Subfield: Plant Science

Field: Agricultural and Biological Sciences

Domain: Life Sciences

Open Access status: bronze

OpenAlex ID: W1967621397

FWCI: 13.25

Cites: 17

Cited by: 222

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