title: It runs in the family: regulation of brassinosteroid signaling by the BZR1-BES1 class of transcription factors.
abstract: Research of the molecular events underlying brassinosteroid (BR) signaling is emerging as a new paradigm for studying plant hormone signal transduction pathways. Two recent reports have shown that the BZR1-BES1 family of proteins is a class of novel plant-specific transcription factors that directly bind to and regulate BR-responsive genes, thus filling in key details of the link between hormonal signal transmission in the cytoplasm and transcriptional status change in the nucleus.
authors.affiliation: Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520-8104, USA.
authors.forename: Lei
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Xing Wang
authors.initials: XW
authors.lastname: Deng
mesh_terms: D017360:Arabidopsis / Q000378:metabolism*; D029681:Arabidopsis Proteins / Q000502:physiology*; D004268:DNA-Binding Proteins; D018506:Gene Expression Regulation, Plant; D009687:Nuclear Proteins / Q000502:physiology*; D015398:Signal Transduction / Q000502:physiology; D014157:Transcription Factors / Q000502:physiology*
chemical_list: D029681:Arabidopsis Proteins; C456160:BES1 protein, Arabidopsis; C454444:BZR1 protein, Arabidopsis; D004268:DNA-Binding Proteins; D009687:Nuclear Proteins; D014157:Transcription Factors