TY - JOUR
T1 - WRKY transcription factors in plant responses to stresses
AU - Jiang, Jingjing
AU - Ma, Shenghui
AU - Ye, Nenghui
AU - Jiang, Ming
AU - Cao, Jiashu
AU - Zhang, Jianhua
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by the Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 31301790), Guangdong Natural Science Foundation (S2013040016220), China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (2013M530375, 2014T70827), and Shenzhen Vegetable Molecular Biotechnological Engineering Lab Scheme (Development and Reform Commission of Shenzhen Municipal Government).
PY - 2017/2/1
Y1 - 2017/2/1
N2 - The WRKY gene family is among the largest families of transcription factors (TFs) in higher plants. By regulating the plant hormone signal transduction pathway, these TFs play critical roles in some plant processes in response to biotic and abiotic stress. Various bodies of research have demonstrated the important biological functions of WRKY TFs in plant response to different kinds of biotic and abiotic stresses and working mechanisms. However, very little summarization has been done to review their research progress. Not just important TFs function in plant response to biotic and abiotic stresses, WRKY also participates in carbohydrate synthesis, senescence, development, and secondary metabolites synthesis. WRKY proteins can bind to W-box (TGACC (A/T)) in the promoter of its target genes and activate or repress the expression of downstream genes to regulate their stress response. Moreover, WRKY proteins can interact with other TFs to regulate plant defensive responses. In the present review, we focus on the structural characteristics of WRKY TFs and the research progress on their functions in plant responses to a variety of stresses.
AB - The WRKY gene family is among the largest families of transcription factors (TFs) in higher plants. By regulating the plant hormone signal transduction pathway, these TFs play critical roles in some plant processes in response to biotic and abiotic stress. Various bodies of research have demonstrated the important biological functions of WRKY TFs in plant response to different kinds of biotic and abiotic stresses and working mechanisms. However, very little summarization has been done to review their research progress. Not just important TFs function in plant response to biotic and abiotic stresses, WRKY also participates in carbohydrate synthesis, senescence, development, and secondary metabolites synthesis. WRKY proteins can bind to W-box (TGACC (A/T)) in the promoter of its target genes and activate or repress the expression of downstream genes to regulate their stress response. Moreover, WRKY proteins can interact with other TFs to regulate plant defensive responses. In the present review, we focus on the structural characteristics of WRKY TFs and the research progress on their functions in plant responses to a variety of stresses.
UR - https://www.jipb.net/EN/10.1111/jipb.12513
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85012935774&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1111/jipb.12513
DO - 10.1111/jipb.12513
M3 - Review article
C2 - 27995748
AN - SCOPUS:85012935774
SN - 1672-9072
VL - 59
SP - 86
EP - 101
JO - Journal of Integrative Plant Biology
JF - Journal of Integrative Plant Biology
IS - 2
ER -