Masaru Ohta

TL;DR: AtERFs are factors that respond to extracellular signals to modulate GCC box–mediated gene expression positively or negatively, and are concluded that AtERF genes were differentially regulated by ethylene and by abiotic stress conditions.

TL;DR: Analysis of the results of a series of deletions revealed that the C-terminal 35 amino acids of NtERF3 are sufficient to confer the capacity for repression of transcription on a heterologous DNA binding domain, and this repression domain suppressed the intermolecular activities of other transcriptional activators.

TL;DR: It appears that ERFs exert their regulatory functions in different ways, with ERF2 and ERF4 being activators and ERf3 being a repressor of transcription.

TL;DR: It is demonstrated here that SUPERMAN is an active repressor whose repression domain is located in the carboxy‐terminal region, demonstrating that the repression activity of SUPERman is essential for the development of normal flowers.

TL;DR: The proteasome-mediated regulation of class II ERF transcriptional repressors is involved in the progression of leaf senescence in Arabidopsis and gene expression and chromatin immunoprecipitation analyses suggest that AtERF4 and AtERf8 targeted the EPITHIOSPECIFIER PROTEin/EPITHIospECIFYING SENESCENCE REGULATOR gene and regulated the expression of many genes involved inThe progression of Leaf senescences.