C3H Family

Description

Li & Thomas. 1998: We used virtual subtraction, a new gene isolation strategy, to isolate several genes of interest that are expressed in Arabidopsis embryos. These genes have demonstrated biological properties or have the potential to be involved in important biological processes. One gene isolated by virtual subtraction is PEI. It encodes a protein containing a Cys3His zinc finger domain associated with a number of animal and fungal transcription factors. In situ hybridization results showed that PEI1 is expressed throughout the embryo from globular to late cotyledon stage.

Domain alignments

This family is also present in:

• Cyanidioschyzon merolae
• Galdieria sulphuraria
• Micromonas pusilla CCMP1545
• Micromonas sp. RCC299
• Ostreococcus lucimarinus
• Ostreococcus tauri
• Chlamydomonas reinhardtii
• Chlorella sp. NC64A
• Coccomyxa sp. C-169
• Physcomitrella patens
• Selaginella moellendorffii
• Oryza sativa subsp. indica
• Oryza sativa subsp. japonica
• Sorghum bicolor
• Zea mays
• Arabidopsis lyrata
• Arabidopsis thaliana
• Carica papaya
• Populus trichocarpa
• Vitis vinifera

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