Role of Ethylene Response Transcription Factor (ERF) and Its Regulation in Response to Stress Encountered by Plants

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• 作者：Krishnaraj Thirugnanasambantham ; Sekar Durairaj…
• 关键词：Transcription factors ; AP2/ERF ; Biotic stress ; Abiotic stress ; miRNAs ; Heat ; shock response
• 刊名：Plant Molecular Biology Reporter
• 出版年：2015
• 出版时间：June 2015
• 年：2015
• 卷：33
• 期：3
• 页码：347-357
• 全文大小：485 KB
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• 作者单位：Krishnaraj Thirugnanasambantham (1) (2)
  Sekar Durairaj (2)
  Subramanian Saravanan (2)
  Kulandaivelu Karikalan (3)
  Senguttuvan Muralidaran (4)
  Villianur Ibrahim Hairul Islam (2)
  
  1. State Bio-control Laboratory, Perunthalaivar Kamaraj Krishi Vigyan Kendra (PKKVK), Kurumbapet, Pondicherry, 605009, India
  2. Pondicherry Centre for Biological Sciences, Jawahar Nagar, Pondicherry, 605005, India
  3. School of Bioscience and Technology, VIT university, Vellore, 632014, India
  4. Suguna Foods Limited, Nehru Street Extension, Coimbatore District, Udumalpet, 642126, Tamil Nadu, India
  
• 刊物类别：Biomedical and Life Sciences
• 刊物主题：Life Sciences
  Plant Sciences
  Plant Physiology
  
• 出版者：Springer Netherlands
• ISSN：1572-9818

文摘

Plants are nonmotile and are easily affected by both biotic and abiotic stresses. Plants have evolved themselves at both cellular and molecular level to fight against stress. Transcription factors are important among the stress-responsive genes, and their protein products are known to regulate the expression of other stress-responsive genes via binding to the regulatory elements. Among the plant transcription factors, ethylene response factor (ERF) is one of the largest subfamilies of Apetala2 (AP2)/ERF transcription factor family and is characterized with single AP2 domain. ERFs are a double-edged sword; though most of the ERFs are activators of stress-responsive genes, certain ERF could act as repressor, and this phenomenon of ERF has been well discussed in this review. Further, the expression of ERFs may be ethylene dependent or independent and is regulated by feedback mechanism. Apart from above regulation mechanism, expressions of ERFs are post-transcriptionally regulated by microRNAs (miRNAs), and miRNA expressions are in turn regulated by ERFs. The present review highlights the importance of ERFs in plant stress management and complexity in regulation of ERF expression in response to various stresses.