Complexes of MADS-box proteins are sufficient to convert leaves into floral organs

By T. Honma, K. Goto. Nature, 2001

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Citations in the corpus

• Stamen Structure and Function (2004, background): “Yeast two-hybrid assays show that PI/AP3 interacts directly with SEP3 but not AG, and it has been proposed that SEP3 mediates interactions between PI/AP3 and AG dimers so that PI/AP3, AG, and SEP bind DNA in quaternary complexes; this effect would explain the combinatorial action of B and C class ge”
• Molecular and Phylogenetic Analyses of the Complete MADS-Box Transcription Factor Family in Arabidopsis Article, publication date, and citation information can be found at www.plantcell.org/cgi/doi/10.1105/tpc.011544. (2003, background): “The C domain is the least conserved domain; in some cases, it has been shown to contain a transactivation domain or to contribute to the formation of multimeric MADS-box protein complexes (Egea-Cortines et al., 1999; Honma and Goto, 2001).”
• An Evaluation of A‐Function: Evidence from the APETALA1 and APETALA2 Gene Lineages (2007, background): “…and Saedler 2001; Kaufmann et al. 2005) based on reports of interactions among Antirrhinum SQUA, DEF, and GLO proteins (orthologues of AP1 and of the B-function AP3 and PI, respectively) (Egea-Cortines and Davies 2000) and among Arabidopsis AP1, AP3, PI, AG, and SEP proteins (Honma and Goto 2001).”
• Molecular mechanisms of flower development: an armchair guide (2005, background): “thaliana plants confirmed the main tenets of the ABCE model, and showed that the expected ABCE gene combinations are sufficient to confer floral-organ identit”
• Whole-genome survey and characterization of MADS-box gene family in maize and sorghum (2011, background): “The C-terminal domain (C-domain) is a highly diverse region, but it has been demonstrated that the C-domain has important functions in transcriptional activation and in the interaction of MADS-box proteins (Kramer and Irish 1999; Honma and Goto 2001).”
• No Flower no Fruit - Genetic Potentials to Trigger Flowering in Fruit Trees (2007, background): “Honma and Goto (2001) revealed that ectopic expression of AG, AP3, PI and SEP3 is sufficient to convert leaves to organs that resemble stamens, and suggested the tetramer complexes PI-AP3AP1-SEP3 and PI-AP1-SEP3-AG for the second and third whorls of A. thaliana, respectively.”
• A molecular link between stem cell regulation and floral patterning in Arabidopsis. (2001, background): “…activation of a small number of MADS domain transcription factors is sufficient to convert vegetative leaves into floral organsAG in the center of wild-type flowers relies on the inte- gration of a flower-specific activity provided by floral (Honma and Goto, 2001; Pelaz et al., 2001).”
• The SEP4 gene of Arabidopsis thaliana functions in floral organ and meristem identity. (2004, background): “The fact that the inflorescence meri- of specific transcription complexes and in conferring stem terminated after producing these flowers indicates upon these complexes transcription activation potential that the ectopic expression of SEP4 was sufficient to [4, 19].”