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PIL6 phytochrome interacting factor 3-like 6 [ Arabidopsis thaliana (thale cress) ]

Gene ID: 825075, updated on 18-Sep-2024

Summary

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Official Symbol
PIL6
Official Full Name
phytochrome interacting factor 3-like 6
Primary source
TAIR:AT3G59060
Locus tag
AT3G59060
See related
Araport:AT3G59060
Gene type
protein coding
RefSeq status
REVIEWED
Organism
Arabidopsis thaliana (ecotype: Columbia)
Lineage
Eukaryota; Viridiplantae; Streptophyta; Embryophyta; Tracheophyta; Spermatophyta; Magnoliopsida; eudicotyledons; Gunneridae; Pentapetalae; rosids; malvids; Brassicales; Brassicaceae; Camelineae; Arabidopsis
Also known as
phytochrome interacting factor 3-like 6; PHYTOCHROME-INTERACTING FACTOR 5; PIF5
Summary
Encodes a novel Myc-related bHLH transcription factor, which physically associated with APRR1/TOC1 and is a member of PIF3 transcription factor family. Involved in shade avoidance. Functions as negative regulator of PhyB. Protein levels are modulated by phytochrome B.
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Genomic context

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Location:
chromosome: 3
Exon count:
6
Sequence:
Chromosome: 3; NC_003074.8 (21827905..21830837, complement)

Chromosome 3 - NC_003074.8Genomic Context describing neighboring genes Neighboring gene Tetratricopeptide repeat (TPR)-like superfamily protein Neighboring gene ncRNA Neighboring gene polyamine oxidase 3 Neighboring gene ncRNA Neighboring gene ncRNA Neighboring gene Cytochrome b561/ferric reductase transmembrane with DOMON related domain-containing protein

Genomic regions, transcripts, and products

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Genomic Sequence:
NC_003074.8

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Bibliography

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Related articles in PubMed

  1. PHYTOCHROME-INTERACTING FACTOR 5 (PIF5) positively regulates dark-induced senescence and chlorophyll degradation in Arabidopsis. Zhang Y, et al. Plant Sci, 2015 Aug. PMID 26089152
  2. Phytochrome interacting factors 4 and 5 control seedling growth in changing light conditions by directly controlling auxin signaling. Hornitschek P, et al. Plant J, 2012 Sep. PMID 22536829
  3. Genomic analysis of circadian clock-, light-, and growth-correlated genes reveals PHYTOCHROME-INTERACTING FACTOR5 as a modulator of auxin signaling in Arabidopsis. Nozue K, et al. Plant Physiol, 2011 May. PMID 21430186, Free PMC Article
  4. PHYTOCHROME-INTERACTING FACTORS PIF4 and PIF5 are implicated in the regulation of hypocotyl elongation in response to blue light in Arabidopsis thaliana. Kunihiro A, et al. Biosci Biotechnol Biochem, 2010. PMID 21150090
  5. Phytochrome-interacting transcription factors PIF4 and PIF5 induce leaf senescence in Arabidopsis. Sakuraba Y, et al. Nat Commun, 2014 Aug 14. PMID 25119965

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GeneRIFs: Gene References Into Functions

What's a GeneRIF?
  1. PHYTOCHROME INTERACTING FACTORS PIF4 and PIF5 promote heat stress induced leaf senescence in Arabidopsis.
    Title: PHYTOCHROME INTERACTING FACTORS PIF4 and PIF5 promote heat stress induced leaf senescence in Arabidopsis.
  2. High Ambient Temperature Accelerates Leaf Senescence via PHYTOCHROME-INTERACTING FACTOR 4 and 5 in Arabidopsis.
    Title: High Ambient Temperature Accelerates Leaf Senescence via PHYTOCHROME-INTERACTING FACTOR 4 and 5 in Arabidopsis.
  3. Phytochrome interacting factors 4 and 5 regulate axillary branching via bud abscisic acid and stem auxin signalling.
    Title: Phytochrome interacting factors 4 and 5 regulate axillary branching via bud abscisic acid and stem auxin signalling.
  4. MYB30 Is a Key Negative Regulator of Arabidopsis Photomorphogenic Development That Promotes PIF4 and PIF5 Protein Accumulation in the Light.
    Title: MYB30 Is a Key Negative Regulator of Arabidopsis Photomorphogenic Development That Promotes PIF4 and PIF5 Protein Accumulation in the Light.
  5. Degradation of the transcription factors PIF4 and PIF5 under UV-B promotes UVR8-mediated inhibition of hypocotyl growth in Arabidopsis.
    Title: Degradation of the transcription factors PIF4 and PIF5 under UV-B promotes UVR8-mediated inhibition of hypocotyl growth in Arabidopsis.
  6. Binding of UV RESISTANCE LOCUS8 protein (UVR8) to COP1 E3 ligase (COP1) in UV-B disrupts stabilisation of PHYTOCHROME-INTERACTING FACTOR5 (PIF5) by COP1, providing a mechanism to rapidly lower PIF5 abundance in sunlight.
    Title: UVR8 disrupts stabilisation of PIF5 by COP1 to inhibit plant stem elongation in sunlight.
  7. COP1 promotes the degradation of HFR1 under shade, thus increasing the ability of PIFs to control gene expression, increase auxin levels and promote stem growth.
    Title: Convergence of CONSTITUTIVE PHOTOMORPHOGENESIS 1 and PHYTOCHROME INTERACTING FACTOR signalling during shade avoidance.
  8. COG1 binds to the promoter regions of PIF4 and PIF5, and PIF4 and PIF5 bind to the promoter regions of key Brassinosteroid biosynthetic genes, such as DWF4 and BR6ox2, to directly promote their expression.
    Title: Brassinosteroid Biosynthesis Is Modulated via a Transcription Factor Cascade of COG1, PIF4, and PIF5.
  9. outline a novel phytochrome signaling mechanism by which TOPP4-mediated dephosphorylation of PIF5 attenuates phytochrome-dependent light responses
    Title: TOPP4 Regulates the Stability of PHYTOCHROME INTERACTING FACTOR5 during Photomorphogenesis in Arabidopsis.
  10. For growth under a canopy, where blue light is diminished, CRY1 and CRY2 perceive this change and respond by directly contacting two bHLH transcription factors, PIF4 and PIF5.
    Title: Cryptochromes Interact Directly with PIFs to Control Plant Growth in Limiting Blue Light.
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Interactions

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Products Interactant Other Gene Complex Source Pubs Description

General gene information

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Markers

Homology

NM_001035812.2
NM_001035813.2
NM_115768.5
NM_180690.2

Gene Ontology Provided by TAIR

Function Evidence Code Pubs
enables DNA-binding transcription factor activity ISS
Inferred from Sequence or Structural Similarity
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enables promoter-specific chromatin binding IPI
Inferred from Physical Interaction
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enables protein binding IPI
Inferred from Physical Interaction
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enables protein dimerization activity IEA
Inferred from Electronic Annotation
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Process Evidence Code Pubs
acts_upstream_of_or_within ethylene biosynthetic process IMP
Inferred from Mutant Phenotype
more info
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acts_upstream_of_or_within red, far-red light phototransduction IMP
Inferred from Mutant Phenotype
more info
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involved_in regulation of DNA-templated transcription IEA
Inferred from Electronic Annotation
more info
  
acts_upstream_of_or_within regulation of auxin biosynthetic process IDA
Inferred from Direct Assay
more info
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acts_upstream_of_or_within regulation of auxin mediated signaling pathway IDA
Inferred from Direct Assay
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involved_in response to brassinosteroid IEP
Inferred from Expression Pattern
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involved_in response to cold IEP
Inferred from Expression Pattern
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involved_in response to low fluence blue light stimulus by blue low-fluence system IDA
Inferred from Direct Assay
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Component Evidence Code Pubs
located_in nucleus IDA
Inferred from Direct Assay
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located_in nucleus ISM
Inferred from Sequence Model
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General protein information

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Preferred Names
phytochrome interacting factor 3-like 6
NP_001030889.1
  • phytochrome interacting factor 3-like 6 (PIL6); FUNCTIONS IN: DNA binding, sequence-specific DNA binding transcription factor activity; INVOLVED IN: red, far-red light phototransduction, ethylene biosynthetic process, circadian rhythm; LOCATED IN: nucleus; EXPRESSED IN: 18 plant structures; EXPRESSED DURING: 10 growth stages; CONTAINS InterPro DOMAIN/s: Helix-loop-helix DNA-binding domain (InterPro:IPR001092), Helix-loop-helix DNA-binding (InterPro:IPR011598); BEST Arabidopsis thaliana protein match is: phytochrome interacting factor 4 (TAIR:AT2G43010.1); Has 35333 Blast hits to 34131 proteins in 2444 species: Archae - 798; Bacteria - 22429; Metazoa - 974; Fungi - 991; Plants - 531; Viruses - 0; Other Eukaryotes - 9610 (source: NCBI BLink).
NP_001030890.1
  • phytochrome interacting factor 3-like 6 (PIL6); FUNCTIONS IN: DNA binding, sequence-specific DNA binding transcription factor activity; INVOLVED IN: red, far-red light phototransduction, ethylene biosynthetic process, circadian rhythm; LOCATED IN: nucleus; EXPRESSED IN: 18 plant structures; EXPRESSED DURING: 10 growth stages; CONTAINS InterPro DOMAIN/s: Helix-loop-helix DNA-binding domain (InterPro:IPR001092), Helix-loop-helix DNA-binding (InterPro:IPR011598); BEST Arabidopsis thaliana protein match is: phytochrome interacting factor 4 (TAIR:AT2G43010.1); Has 35333 Blast hits to 34131 proteins in 2444 species: Archae - 798; Bacteria - 22429; Metazoa - 974; Fungi - 991; Plants - 531; Viruses - 0; Other Eukaryotes - 9610 (source: NCBI BLink).
NP_191465.3
  • phytochrome interacting factor 3-like 6 (PIL6); FUNCTIONS IN: DNA binding, sequence-specific DNA binding transcription factor activity; INVOLVED IN: red, far-red light phototransduction, ethylene biosynthetic process, circadian rhythm; LOCATED IN: nucleus; EXPRESSED IN: 18 plant structures; EXPRESSED DURING: 10 growth stages; CONTAINS InterPro DOMAIN/s: Helix-loop-helix DNA-binding domain (InterPro:IPR001092), Helix-loop-helix DNA-binding (InterPro:IPR011598); BEST Arabidopsis thaliana protein match is: phytochrome interacting factor 4 (TAIR:AT2G43010.1); Has 4555 Blast hits to 4547 proteins in 305 species: Archae - 0; Bacteria - 0; Metazoa - 974; Fungi - 129; Plants - 3421; Viruses - 0; Other Eukaryotes - 31 (source: NCBI BLink).
NP_851021.1
  • phytochrome interacting factor 3-like 6 (PIL6); FUNCTIONS IN: DNA binding, sequence-specific DNA binding transcription factor activity; INVOLVED IN: red, far-red light phototransduction, ethylene biosynthetic process, circadian rhythm; LOCATED IN: nucleus; EXPRESSED IN: 18 plant structures; EXPRESSED DURING: 10 growth stages; CONTAINS InterPro DOMAIN/s: Helix-loop-helix DNA-binding domain (InterPro:IPR001092), Helix-loop-helix DNA-binding (InterPro:IPR011598); BEST Arabidopsis thaliana protein match is: phytochrome interacting factor 4 (TAIR:AT2G43010.1); Has 4578 Blast hits to 4570 proteins in 308 species: Archae - 0; Bacteria - 0; Metazoa - 987; Fungi - 138; Plants - 3423; Viruses - 0; Other Eukaryotes - 30 (source: NCBI BLink).

NCBI Reference Sequences (RefSeq)

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Genome Annotation

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Reference assembly

Genomic

  1. NC_003074.8 Reference assembly

    Range
    21827905..21830837 complement
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mRNA and Protein(s)

  1. NM_115768.5 → NP_191465.3  phytochrome interacting factor 3-like 6 [Arabidopsis thaliana]

    See identical proteins and their annotated locations for NP_191465.3

    Status: REVIEWED

    UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot
    Q84LH8, Q8RXG4, Q8S3D7, Q9LYT0
    UniProtKB/TrEMBL
    A0A178VFB8, A0A5S9XMU6, B9DH29
    Conserved Domains (1) summary
    cd11445
    Location:256 → 318
    bHLH_AtPIF_like; basic helix-loop-helix (bHLH) domain found in Arabidopsis thaliana phytochrome interacting factors (PIFs) and similar proteins

  2. NM_001035813.2 → NP_001030890.1  phytochrome interacting factor 3-like 6 [Arabidopsis thaliana]

    See identical proteins and their annotated locations for NP_001030890.1

    Status: REVIEWED

    UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot
    Q84LH8, Q8RXG4, Q8S3D7, Q9LYT0
    UniProtKB/TrEMBL
    A0A178VFB8, A0A5S9XMU6, B9DH29
    Conserved Domains (1) summary
    cd11445
    Location:256 → 318
    bHLH_AtPIF_like; basic helix-loop-helix (bHLH) domain found in Arabidopsis thaliana phytochrome interacting factors (PIFs) and similar proteins

  3. NM_001035812.2 → NP_001030889.1  phytochrome interacting factor 3-like 6 [Arabidopsis thaliana]

    See identical proteins and their annotated locations for NP_001030889.1

    Status: REVIEWED

    UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot
    Q84LH8, Q8RXG4, Q8S3D7, Q9LYT0
    UniProtKB/TrEMBL
    A0A178VFB8, A0A5S9XMU6, B9DH29
    Conserved Domains (1) summary
    cd11445
    Location:256 → 318
    bHLH_AtPIF_like; basic helix-loop-helix (bHLH) domain found in Arabidopsis thaliana phytochrome interacting factors (PIFs) and similar proteins

  4. NM_180690.2 → NP_851021.1  phytochrome interacting factor 3-like 6 [Arabidopsis thaliana]

    See identical proteins and their annotated locations for NP_851021.1

    Status: REVIEWED

    UniProtKB/TrEMBL
    A0A7G2EW66
    Conserved Domains (1) summary
    smart00353
    Location:262 → 310
    HLH; helix loop helix domain
Nucleotide Protein
Heading Accession and Version
Protein Accession Links
GenPept Link UniProtKB Link
Q84LH8.1

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