InterPro domain: IPR031055

General Information

  • Identifier IPR031055
  • Description Protein rough sheath 2 /ASYMMETRIC LEAVES1

Abstract

This entry represents a group of Myb transcription factors from plants, including protein rough sheath 2 (RS2) and ASSYMMETRIC LEAVES1 (Asn1) [ 1 , 2 ]. They repress Knotted1-type homeobox (KNOX) genes and are required to establish determinacy during leaf development. RS2/AS1 interacts with the DNA binding factor ASYMMETRIC LEAVES2, a predicted RNA binding protein (RIK, for RS2-Interacting KH protein), and a homologue of the chromatin-remodeling protein HIRA. Together with HIRA, RS2/AS1 mediates the epigenetic silencing of knox genes, possibly by modulating chromatin structure [ 3 ].


1. Conservation and molecular dissection of ROUGH SHEATH2 and ASYMMETRIC LEAVES1 function in leaf development. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 100, 6837-42
2. Functional conservation of wheat orthologs of maize rough sheath1 and rough sheath2 genes. Plant Mol. Biol. 69, 273-85
3. Maize rough sheath2 and its Arabidopsis orthologue ASYMMETRIC LEAVES1 interact with HIRA, a predicted histone chaperone, to maintain knox gene silencing and determinacy during organogenesis. Plant Cell 17, 2886-98

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