Detailed gene information

Genes [306]




ELF8, VIP6
EARLY FLOWERING 8, VERNALIZATION INDEPENDENCE 6
TAIR: AT2G06210
UNIPROT: B5X0I6
NOWOMICS: View List

Publications

He Y et al., 2004, Genes Dev.
Oh S et al., 2004, Plant Cell
Liu Y et al., 2011, PLoS ONE

Appears in the following schemes

FLC regulation through protein complexes
General processes & autonomous pathway

Protein function

Encodes a subunit of Paf1C-like complex.

Phenotype

Remarks:
ELF8 encodes a component of the Paf1c complex, which is involved in the postivie regulation of FLC expression.. [Yu et al., 2010]

Remarks:
elf8 mutation supresses the FLC-dependent late flowering of the Col FRI background. ELF8 also affects flowering through the regulation of other MADS-box genes. [He et al., 2004]

Remarks:
elf8 single mutant has reduced FLC expression levels. [He et al., 2004][Zhang et al., 2003]

Single mutant:
elf8 single mutant is early flowering under both SD and LD conditions. [He et al., 2004][Gu et al., 2009]

Function:
Component of the PAF1 complex (PAF1C) which is involved in histone modifications such as methylation on histone H3 Lys-4 (H3K4me3) (PubMed:20363855). Involved in regulation of flowering time. Required for the expression of the MADS box genes and flowering repressors FLC, AGL27/FLM and AGL31/MAF2 (PubMed:15520273, PubMed:15472079). Required for histone H3 trimethylation on Lys-4 H3K4me3 at the FLC and AGL27/FLM loci (PubMed:15520273). Involved in the control of seed dormancy and germination (PubMed:21799800). [Data from UniProt]

Regulators, targets and interactors

Downstream actors

causality
FLC, AGL25, FLF -- [He et al., 2004] -- [View TAIR record]



Upstream actors


Protein-protein interactions

PHP, CDC73 -- [Park et al., 2010] -- [View TAIR record]

VIP3, SKI8 -- [Oh et al., 2004] -- [View TAIR record]

VIP4 -- [Oh et al., 2004] -- [View TAIR record]



ELF8, VIP6 interaction network

Downstream and upstream flowering-related genes

Physical interactions with other flowering-related proteins