PlantTFDB
PlantRegMap/PlantTFDB v5.0
Plant Transcription Factor Database
Utricularia gibba
GATA Family
Species TF ID Description
678294985GATA family protein
678294995GATA family protein
678300249GATA family protein
678305049GATA family protein
678318192GATA family protein
678333240GATA family protein
678345813GATA family protein
678357849GATA family protein
678367062GATA family protein
678370550GATA family protein
678374276GATA family protein
678397060GATA family protein
678397573GATA family protein
678411319GATA family protein
678413623GATA family protein
678418073GATA family protein
678423460GATA family protein
678434062GATA family protein
678436775GATA family protein
678437992GATA family protein
678441204GATA family protein
678444218GATA family protein
678451683GATA family protein
678455836GATA family protein
678456691GATA family protein
678458394GATA family protein
678460569GATA family protein
678465147GATA family protein
678466138GATA 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