Plant Transcription Factors @ uni-potsdam.de

Introduction Transcription factors are proteins that regulate gene expression levels by binding to specific short DNA sequences (cisacting elements) in the promoter region of target genes, and enhancing or repressing their transcription rate. Their identification is a key step for the reconstruction of transcriptional regulatory networks. The availability of complete genomes together with protein domain models (e. g., HMMS) in public repositories (e. g., PFAM, SMART) allows to predict sets of putative transcription factors on a genome-wide scale in several species (e. g., [1, 2]). Here we have predicted the putative complete set of transcription factors in five plant species.