PlantTFDB
PlantRegMap/PlantTFDB v5.0
Plant Transcription Factor Database
Malus domestica
GATA Family
Species TF ID Description
MDP0000129092GATA family protein
MDP0000131803GATA family protein
MDP0000137305GATA family protein
MDP0000166889GATA family protein
MDP0000172464GATA family protein
MDP0000182176GATA family protein
MDP0000190038GATA family protein
MDP0000192617GATA family protein
MDP0000220844GATA family protein
MDP0000224540GATA family protein
MDP0000237740GATA family protein
MDP0000243535GATA family protein
MDP0000248210GATA family protein
MDP0000248942GATA family protein
MDP0000253174GATA family protein
MDP0000255235GATA family protein
MDP0000263391GATA family protein
MDP0000275252GATA family protein
MDP0000290156GATA family protein
MDP0000303048GATA family protein
MDP0000309356GATA family protein
MDP0000309902GATA family protein
MDP0000310271GATA family protein
MDP0000316985GATA family protein
MDP0000338280GATA family protein
MDP0000401351GATA family protein
MDP0000462997GATA family protein
MDP0000528111GATA family protein
MDP0000542350GATA family protein
MDP0000542351GATA family protein
MDP0000566760GATA family protein
MDP0000703990GATA family protein
MDP0000739900GATA family protein
MDP0000777336GATA family protein
MDP0000824445GATA family protein
GATA Family Introduction

GATA factors were first identified as proteins that interact with conserved WGATAR (W = T or A; R = G or A) motifs involved in erythroid-specific gene expressionin vertebrates.

GATA factors are characterised by the presence of conserved, type-IV zinc-finger motifs Animal factors typically contain two C-x2-Cx17-C-x2-C zinc-finger domains. The majority of known fungal GATA factors contain a single C-x2-C-x17-C-x2-C finger with greatest similarity to the carboxyl (C) terminal finger of animal GATA factors.Several examples of fungal GATA factors containing a variant C-x2-C-x18-C-x2-C DNA-binding domain are also known.

Examples of both C-x2-C-x17-Cx2-C (Type IVa) and C-x2-C-x18-C-x2-C (Type IVb) GATA factors are found within fungi; animals onlycontain the former configuration, and plants only the latter. Plant GATA factors typically contain a single zinc finger. The Arabidopsis type-IV zinc-finger proteins may represent the previously defined family of nuclear GATA-binding proteins implicated in light-responsive transcription.

Teakle GR, Manfield IW, Graham JF, Gilmartin PM.
Arabidopsis thaliana GATA factors: organisation, expression and DNA-binding characteristics.
Plant Mol Biol. 2002 Sep;50(1):43-57.
PMID: 12139008