Heat shock transcription factor family in plants: a review.

Author: Nan ZHANG ¹ ; Yinghong WANG ¹ ; Zhimin WANG ¹ ; Zhenyu YUE ¹ ; Yi NIU ¹
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1. Key Laboratory of Horticulture Science for Southern Mountainous Regions, Ministry of Education, College of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture, Southwest University, Chongqing 400715, China.
Publication Type:Review
Keywords: heat shock transcription factors; regulatory mechanisms; stress; transcription factors
MeSH: Arabidopsis/metabolism*; Droughts; Gene Expression Regulation, Plant; Heat Shock Transcription Factors/genetics*; Plant Proteins/genetics*; Stress, Physiological; Transcription Factors/metabolism*
From: Chinese Journal of Biotechnology 2021;37(4):1155-1167
CountryChina
Language:Chinese
Abstract: With the constant change of global climate, plants are often affected by multiple abiotic stresses such as heat stress, drought stress, cold stress and saline-alkali stress. Heat shock transcription factors (HSFs) are a class of transcription factors widely existing in plants to respond to a variety of abiotic stresses. In this article, we review and summarize the structure, signal regulation mechanism of HSFs and some research in plants like Arabidopsis thaliana, tomato, rice and soybean, to provide reference for further elucidating the role of HSFs in the stress regulation network.