Appadtion of the NAC Transcription Factors Predates the Emergence of Land Plants

作     者：Aude Maugarny-Cales Beatriz Gonqalves Stefan Jouannic Michael Melkonian Gane Ka-Shu Wonge Patrick Laufs 

作者机构：Institut Jean-Pierre Bourgin INRA AgroParisTech CNRS Universite ParisSaclay RD10 78026 Versailles Cedex France Univ. Pads-Sud Universite Paris-Saclay 91405 Orsay France IRD UMR DIADE 911 Avenue Agropolis BP6450134394 Mbntpellier Cedex 5 France LMI RICE IRD USTH National Key Laboratory for Plant Cell Biotechnology Agronomical Genetics Institute Pham Van Dong Road Hanoi Vietnam Botany Department Cologne Biocenter University of Cologne 50674 Cologne Germany Beijing Genomics Institute-Shenzhen Shenzhen 518083 China Department of Biological Sciences University of Alberta Edmonton AB T6G 2E9 Canada Department of Medicine University of Alberta Edmonton AB T6G 2E Canada These authors contributed equally to this article. 

出 版 物：《Molecular Plant》 (分子植物（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2016年第9卷第9期

页      面：1345-1348页

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学科分类：0710[理学-生物学] 071001[理学-植物学] 07[理学] 

基　　金：supported by the Agence National de la Recherche grants MorphoLeaf LeafNet The IJPB benefits from the support of the Labex Saclay Plant Sciences-SPS 

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摘      要：Dear Editor The NAC （for NO APICAL MERISTEM [NAM], Arabidopsis TRANSCRII^TION ACTIVATOR FACTOR [ATAF] and CUP- SHAPED COTYLEDON [CUC]） proteins are one of the largest families of plant-specific transcription factors （Nagata et aL, 2015）. They are involved in many different biological processes including development and the response to biotic and abiotic stresses. To date, NAC transcription factors have only been identified in land plants （Zhu et al., 2012; Nagata et al., 2015）; and some of them control land-plant-specific processes, such as the formation of specialized water-conducting systems （Xu et al., 2014）. Therefore, it has been suggested that their appearance accompanied the emergence of land plants. Here, we exploited the transcriptomic data generated within the 1000 plants project （***, Wickett et al., 2014） to revisit the origin of NAC proteins. Our careful analysis shows that NAC transcription factors appeared before the ernergence of land plants as we detected their homologs in several groups of streptophyte green algae. The possible significance of this finding is discussed.