Basic-leucine zipper (bZIP) transcription factor family protein
Curator Summary
bZIP protein required for positive regulation of flowering. Mutants are late flowering. FD interacts with FT to promote flowering.Expressed in the shoot apex in floral anlagen, then declines in floral primordia.
Computational Description
FD; CONTAINS InterPro DOMAIN/s: Basic-leucine zipper (bZIP) transcription factor (InterPro:IPR004827), bZIP transcription factor, bZIP-1 (InterPro:IPR011616); BEST Arabidopsis thaliana protein match is: basic region/leucine zipper motif 27 (TAIR:AT2G17770.2); Has 747 Blast hits to 421 proteins in 73 species: Archae - 0; Bacteria - 6; Metazoa - 144; Fungi - 40; Plants - 193; Viruses - 0; Other Eukaryotes - 364 (source: NCBI BLink).