Table 3

Family specificity of putative miRNA-targeted transcription factors

Transcription factor gene family
Predicted number of proteins*
Predicted number of miRNA targets
Percent members targeted





Arabidopsis thaliana
Drosophila melanogaster
Caenorhabditis elegans
Saccharomyces cerevisiae



MYB superfamily
190
6
3
10
22
11.6%
bHLH
139
46
25
8
3
2.2%
HB
89
103
84
9
4
4.5%
MADS
82
2
2
4
4
4.9%
bZIP
81
21
25
21
4
4.9%
CCAAT
36
7
7
6
1
2.8%
AP2
14
0
0
0
6
42.9%
NAC
109
0
0
0
10
9.1%
WRKY
72
0
0
0
1
1.4%
GRAS
32
0
0
0
9
28.1%
SBP
16
0
0
0
8
50.0%

*Data in this column are taken from [58]. The percentage of transcription factors in each family targeted by miRNA in Arabidopsis.

Wang et al. Genome Biology 2004 5:R65   doi:10.1186/gb-2004-5-9-r65

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