InterPro domain: IPR044808

This entry represents a group of plant ethylene-responsive transcription factors, including ERF1 from Nicotiana tabacum (Common tobacco), RAP2-3 (also known as AtEBP) from Arabidopsis and ERF.C.3 from Solanum lycopersicum (Tomato). They are ethylene-inducible DNA binding proteins that bind to the GCC-box pathogenesis-related promoter element [ 1 , 2 , 3 ]. ERF.C.3 acts downstream of MYC2 in the jasmonate-mediated response to Botrytis cinerea infection [ 4 ].

1. Ethylene-inducible DNA binding proteins that interact with an ethylene-responsive element. Plant Cell 7, 173-82
2. Arabidopsis thaliana ethylene-responsive element binding protein (AtEBP), an ethylene-inducible, GCC box DNA-binding protein interacts with an ocs element binding protein. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 94, 5961-6
3. Functional analysis and binding affinity of tomato ethylene response factors provide insight on the molecular bases of plant differential responses to ethylene. BMC Plant Biol 12, 190
4. MYC2 Orchestrates a Hierarchical Transcriptional Cascade That Regulates Jasmonate-Mediated Plant Immunity in Tomato. Plant Cell 29, 1883-1906