PlantTFDB
PlantRegMap/PlantTFDB v5.0
Plant Transcription Factor Database
Marchantia polymorpha
C3H Family
Species TF ID Description
Mapoly0005s0044.1.pC3H family protein
Mapoly0005s0044.2.pC3H family protein
Mapoly0005s0067.1.pC3H family protein
Mapoly0005s0067.2.pC3H family protein
Mapoly0005s0067.3.pC3H family protein
Mapoly0005s0287.1.pC3H family protein
Mapoly0008s0006.1.pC3H family protein
Mapoly0009s0116.1.pC3H family protein
Mapoly0010s0070.1.pC3H family protein
Mapoly0012s0190.1.pC3H family protein
Mapoly0014s0196.1.pC3H family protein
Mapoly0014s0196.2.pC3H family protein
Mapoly0023s0030.1.pC3H family protein
Mapoly0023s0030.2.pC3H family protein
Mapoly0025s0136.1.pC3H family protein
Mapoly0031s0160.1.pC3H family protein
Mapoly0036s0144.1.pC3H family protein
Mapoly0042s0020.1.pC3H family protein
Mapoly0042s0020.2.pC3H family protein
Mapoly0042s0020.3.pC3H family protein
Mapoly0042s0020.4.pC3H family protein
Mapoly0042s0020.5.pC3H family protein
Mapoly0054s0011.1.pC3H family protein
Mapoly0066s0113.1.pC3H family protein
Mapoly0067s0020.1.pC3H family protein
Mapoly0070s0028.1.pC3H family protein
Mapoly0075s0060.1.pC3H family protein
Mapoly0075s0060.2.pC3H family protein
Mapoly0078s0012.1.pC3H family protein
Mapoly0097s0070.1.pC3H family protein
Mapoly0099s0053.1.pC3H family protein
Mapoly0099s0053.2.pC3H family protein
Mapoly0099s0053.3.pC3H family protein
Mapoly0099s0053.4.pC3H family protein
Mapoly0099s0053.5.pC3H family protein
Mapoly0099s0053.6.pC3H family protein
Mapoly0099s0053.7.pC3H family protein
Mapoly0104s0012.1.pC3H family protein
Mapoly0111s0035.1.pC3H family protein
Mapoly0121s0050.1.pC3H family protein
Mapoly0131s0021.1.pC3H family protein
Mapoly0157s0010.1.pC3H family protein
Mapoly0159s0020.1.pC3H family protein
Mapoly0159s0020.2.pC3H family protein
Mapoly0159s0020.3.pC3H family protein
Mapoly0159s0020.4.pC3H family protein
Mapoly0165s0013.1.pC3H family protein
Mapoly0359s0001.1.pC3H family protein
C3H Family Introduction

One gene isolated by virtual subtraction is PEI. It encodes a protein containing a Cys3His zinc finger domain associated with a number of animal and fungal transcription factors. In situ hybridization results showed that PEI1 is expressed throughout the embryo from globular to late cotyledon stage. Transgenic Arabidopsis plants expressing a PEI1 antisense gene produced white seeds in which embryo development did not progress through heart stage. Aberrant embryos failed to form cotyledons, but the embryonic root appeared to be normal. Aberrant embryos did not turn green, and the expression of genes involved in photomorphogenesis was drastically attenuated. In culture, aberrant embryos did not form true leaves, but root formation was apparently normal. These results suggest that PEI1 is an embryo-specific transcription factor that plays an important role during Arabidopsis embryogenesis, functioning primarily in the apical domain of the embryo.

we used a random binding site selection method to show that recombinant PEI1 protein purified from Escherichia coli can bind to specific DNA sequences. This DNA binding activity supports the prediction that PEI1 is an embryo-specific transcription factor.

Z Li and T L Thomas.
PEI1, an embryo-specific zinc finger protein gene required for heart-stage embryo formation in Arabidopsis.
Plant Cell, 1998. 10(3): p. 383-98.
PMID: 9501112