TAP Family: bZIP

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.

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

Foster, R; Izawa, T; Chua, NH. 1994. Plant bZIP proteins gather at ACGT elements. FASEB J. 8(2):192-200"

Hurst, HC. 1995. Transcription factors 1: bZIP proteins. Protein Profile 2(2):101-68"

Jakoby, M; Weisshaar, B; Dröge-Laser, W; Vicente-Carbajosa, J; Tiedemann, J; Kroj, T; Parcy, F; bZIP Research Group. 2002. bZIP transcription factors in Arabidopsis. Trends Plant Sci. 7(3):106-11"

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"

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"