Encodes a protein that specifically binds plant telomeric DNA repeats. It has a single Myb telomeric DNA-binding domain in C-terminus that prefers the sequence TTTAGGG.
Computational Description
telomeric DNA binding protein 1 (TBP1); FUNCTIONS IN: DNA binding, double-stranded telomeric DNA binding; INVOLVED IN: telomere maintenance; LOCATED IN: chromosome, telomeric region, nucleus; EXPRESSED IN: 16 plant structures; EXPRESSED DURING: L mature pollen stage, M germinated pollen stage, 4 anthesis, petal differentiation and expansion stage; CONTAINS InterPro DOMAIN/s: SANT, DNA-binding (InterPro:IPR001005), Homeodomain-like (InterPro:IPR009057), Ubiquitin supergroup (InterPro:IPR019955), HTH transcriptional regulator, Myb-type, DNA-binding (InterPro:IPR017930), Homeodomain-related (InterPro:IPR012287); BEST Arabidopsis thaliana protein match is: TRF-like 9 (TAIR:AT3G12560.1); Has 1807 Blast hits to 1807 proteins in 277 species: Archae - 0; Bacteria - 0; Metazoa - 736; Fungi - 347; Plants - 385; Viruses - 0; Other Eukaryotes - 339 (source: NCBI BLink).