PlantTFDB
PlantRegMap/PlantTFDB v5.0
Plant Transcription Factor Database
Tetrabaena socialis
GATA Family
Species TF ID Description
PNG99641.1GATA family protein
PNH03891.1GATA family protein
PNH05480.1GATA family protein
PNH06851.1GATA family protein
PNH07478.1GATA family protein
PNH07835.1GATA family protein
PNH09969.1GATA family protein
PNH10059.1GATA family protein
PNH10222.1GATA family protein
PNH11951.1GATA family protein
PNH12050.1GATA family protein
PNH12452.1GATA 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