HSFA8 heat shock transcription factor A8 [Arabidopsis thaliana (thale cress)] - Gene

Summary

Official Symbol: HSFA8
Official Full Name: heat shock transcription factor A8
Primary source: TAIR:AT1G67970
Locus tag: AT1G67970
See related: Araport:AT1G67970
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: AT-HSFA8; heat shock transcription factor A8; heat shock transcription factor A8; T23K23.18; T23K23_18
Summary: member of Heat Stress Transcription Factor (Hsf) family
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Chromosome 1 - NC_003070.9 Genomic Context describing neighboring genes

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HSFA8 functions as redox sensing transcription factor within the stress-responsive transcriptional network.
Title: Redox-dependent translocation of the heat shock transcription factor AtHSFA8 from the cytosol to the nucleus in Arabidopsis thaliana.

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Products	Interactant	Other Gene	Complex	Source	Pubs	Description

NM_105467.4

Function	Evidence Code	Pubs
enables DNA-binding transcription factor activity	ISS Inferred from Sequence or Structural Similarity more info	PubMed
enables transcription cis-regulatory region binding	IPI Inferred from Physical Interaction more info	PubMed

Process	Evidence Code	Pubs
involved_in regulation of DNA-templated transcription	IEA Inferred from Electronic Annotation more info
acts_upstream_of_or_within regulation of DNA-templated transcription	ISS Inferred from Sequence or Structural Similarity more info	PubMed

Component	Evidence Code	Pubs
located_in nucleus	ISM Inferred from Sequence Model more info

NP_176964.1

heat shock transcription factor A8 (HSFA8); FUNCTIONS IN: DNA binding, sequence-specific DNA binding transcription factor activity; INVOLVED IN: regulation of transcription, DNA-dependent; LOCATED IN: nucleus; EXPRESSED IN: 24 plant structures; EXPRESSED DURING: 14 growth stages; CONTAINS InterPro DOMAIN/s: Winged helix-turn-helix transcription repressor DNA-binding (InterPro:IPR011991), Heat shock factor (HSF)-type, DNA-binding (InterPro:IPR000232); BEST Arabidopsis thaliana protein match is: heat shock factor 1 (TAIR:AT4G17750.1); Has 2085 Blast hits to 2073 proteins in 225 species: Archae - 0; Bacteria - 3; Metazoa - 333; Fungi - 465; Plants - 781; Viruses - 0; Other Eukaryotes - 503 (source: NCBI BLink).