Synergistic binding of bHLH transcription factors to the promoter of the maize NADP-ME gene used in C4 photosynthesis is based on an ancient code found in the ancestral C3 state
A. R. Borba, T. S. Serra, A. Gorska, P. Gouveia, A. M. Cordeiro, I. Reyna-Llorens, J. Knerova, P. M. Barros, I. A. Abreu, M. M. O. Oliveira, J. M. Hibberd, N. J. M. Saibo
The paper identifies a conserved cis-element pair in the NADP-ME promoter of maize that evolved from an ancestral C3 regulatory code to control C4 photosynthesis.
bioRxiv · Jan 19, 2018Plant Biology