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Plant and Cell Physiology 2007 48(1):179-185; doi:10.1093/pcp/pcl044
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Short Communication

Evolutionary Processes During the Formation of the Plant-Specific Dof Transcription Factor Family

Mikao Shigyo, Nobumitsu Tabei, Tadakatsu Yoneyama and Shuichi Yanagisawa*

Department of Applied Biological Chemistry, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Yayoi 1-1-1, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-8657 Japan

*Corresponding author: E-mail, asyanagi{at}mail.ecc.u-tokyo.ac.jp; Fax, +81-3-5841-8032.


  Abstract

We found 19 putative genes for plant-specific Dof transcription factors in the moss Physcomitrella patens and one Dof gene in the green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, but no identifiable Dof gene in the red alga Cyanidioschyzon merolae and the diatom Thalassiosira pseudonana, suggesting that the origin of the Dof transcription factors pre-dates the divergence of the green algae and the ancestors of terrestrial plants. The phylogenetic analyses contended that the Dof family in angiosperms formed through a series of evolutionary processes, including intensive duplications of a specific ancestral gene after the divergence of the moss and the angiosperm lineages.

Keywords: Chlamydomonas - Dof factor - Molecular evolution - Moss - Transcription factor

Abbreviations: BPBF, barley prolamin box-binding factor; CDF, cycling DOF factor; COG1, cogwheel 1; DAG, Dof affecting germination; Dof, DNA binding with one finger; EST, expressed sequence tag; JTT, Jones–Taylor–Thornton; ML, maximum likelihood; NJ, neighbor-joining; OBF, ocs-element-binding factor; OBP, OBF-binding protein; PBF, prolamin-box binding factor; WPBF, wheat prolamin-box binding factor

(Received September 20, 2006; Accepted November 17, 2006)
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