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. 2007 Jan 12;99(5):787–822. doi: 10.1093/aob/mcl255

Abbreviations used in the text

Abbreviation* Full name/description
35S Promoter from the cauliflower mosaic virus that makes a 35S RNA transcript
ABA Abscisic acid
ABF ABRE binding factor
ABI Abscisic acid insensitive
ABRE ABA response element
ACC 1-amino-1-cyclopropane-carboxylic acid (ethylene precursor)
ACRE Avr/Cf9 rapidly elicited
ACS ACC synthase
AFB Auxin signalling F-box protein
AFP ABI5 binding protein
AIP ABI3 interacting protein
AOS Allene oxide synthase
AP Apetala
APC Anaphase promoting complex
ARF Auxin response factor
ARIA Arm protein repeat interacting with ABF2
ARM Armadillo, a protein interaction domain
ASK Arabidopsis SKP1-like
At Arabidopsis thaliana (arabidopsis)
ATL Arabidopsis toxico para levadura (toxic to fungi)
Aux/IAA Auxin/indole-3-acetic-acid
AuxRE Auxin response element
Avr factor Avirulence factor
AvrPtoB Avirulence – Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato
AvrRpm Avirulence – resistance to Pseudomonas syringae pv. maculicola
avrRpt Avirulence – resistance to Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato
AXR Auxin resistant
AXR3NT:GUS Auxin resistant 3 N-terminus:beta-glucuronidase protein fusion
BAB Bric-a-brac protein
BAK BRI1 associated receptor kinase
BARD BRCA1 associated RING domain
bes1-D bri1-EMS-suppressor 1 dominant
BIN Brassinosteroid insensitive
blastp Basic local alignment search tool – protein
BRCA Breast cancer (BRCA1 is an E3)
BRH Brassinosteroid-responsive RING-H2
BRI Brassinosteroid insensitive
BSU bri1 suppressor
BTB Domain first found in the Drosophila proteins: broad complex, tramtrack and bric-a-brac
BY Bright yellow
bzr1-1D Brassinazole-resistant 1–1dominant
C. fulvum Cladosporum fulvum
CAND Cullin associated and neddylation-dissociated
Cdc Cell-division cycle
CDD COP10, DET1, DDB1 complex
CDPK Calcium-dependent protein kinase
Cdt Cdc10-dependent transcript 2
C. elegans Caenorhabditis elegans
Cf Required for resistance to Cladosporum fulvum
CFP Cyan fluorescent protein
CHIP C-terminal HSP interacting protein
c-Jun Gene for this protein cloned from avian sarcoma isolate #17; ju-nana is 17 in japanese
Clink Cell cycle link
CMPG Cysteine-methionine-proline-glycine (first 4 strictly conserved amino acids within domain)
COI Coronitine insensitive
COP Constitutive photomorphogenic
CRL Cullin RING ligase
CSN COP9 signalosome
Ctf Chromosome transmission fidelity
CTR Constitutive triple response
CUE Ubiquitin-binding domain identified in yeast Cue1p
CUL Cullin
DCAF DDB1-cullin4-associated factor
DCN Defective in cullin neddylation
DDB Damaged DNA binding
DET De-etiolated
DsRed Discosoma sp. ‘red’ (fluorescent protein)
E1 Enzyme 1 (same as UBA, ubiquitin activating enzyme)
E2 Enzyme 2 (same as UBC, ubiquitin conjugating enzyme)
E2F E2 promoter binding factor
E3 Enzyme 3 (same as ubiquitin protein ligase)
EAR ERF-associated amphiphilic repression
EBF EIN3-binding F-box
Ebi Shrimp (in Japanese)
ECR E1 C-terminal related
EID Empfindlicher im dunkelroten licht (sensitive to far-red light – German)
EIL EIN3-like
EIN Ethylene insensitive
EIR Ethylene insensitive root
EL5 Elicitor induced
ELI Elicitor-activated gene
EOL ETO-like
ERF Ethylene response factor
ERS Ethylene response sensor
ETO Ethylene overproduction
ETR Ethylene receptor
FBNYV Faba bean necrotic yellow virus
FLAG Synthetic epitope tag
flg22 Flagellin (22 amino acids from N-terminal part of protein)
FUS Fusca
GA Gibberellic acid/gibberellins
GA2ox GA 2-oxidase
GA3ox GA 3-oxidase
GAI GA (gibberellin) insensitive
GAMYB Gibberellin-inducible Myb (identified from an oncogene in avian myeblastosis virus)
GFP Green fluorescent protein
GID Gibberellin insensitive dwarf
GMPOZ GAMYB associated BTB/POZ protein
GSK Glycogen synthase kinase
GST Glutathione-S-transferase
GTPase Guanosine triphosphatase
GUS Beta-glucuronidase
HA Peptide sequence from influenza haemagglutinin protein (epitope tag)
HAUSP Herpes-associated ubiquitin-specific protease
HcPro Helper component protease
HDAC Histone deacetylase
HECT Homologous to E6-AP COOH terminus
HLS Hookless
HR Hypersensitive response
HSL Hormone-sensitive lipase
HSP90 Heat shock protein 90 kDa
HSS Hookless1 suppressor
Hv Hordeum vulgare (barley)
HY Long hypocotyl
IAA Indole-3-acetic acid
INA 2,6-dichloroisonicotinic acid (synthetic inducer of SAR)
ISR Induced systemic resistance
JA Jasmonic acid
JAI Jasmonate insensitive
Keap Kelch-like ECH-associated protein
LMV Lettuce mosaic virus
LRA Loss of recognition of avrRpm1
LRR Leucine-rich repeat
LUC Photinus pyralis luciferase (firefly)
MAPK Mitogen-activated protein kinase
MATH Meprin and TRAF homology
MEI Meiotic
MeJA Methyl jasmonate
MEL Maternal effect lethality
MG132 Carboxybenzyl-leucyl-leucyl-leucinal (proteasome inhibitor)
Mla Mildew resistance locus A
MPK Mitogen-activated protein kinase
Myc Epitope tag from c-Myc protein (originally identified from a chicken with myelocytomatosis)
1-NAA 1-naphthaleneacetic acid (synthetic auxin)
NAC NAM, ATAF, and CUC transcription factors
NBS Nucleotide binding site
NCBI National Center for Biotechnology Information
NCED Nine-cis-epoxycarotenoid dioxygenase
NEDD Neural precursor cell expressed, developmentally down-regulated gene
NIM Non-inducible immunity
NPB Nuclear protein body
NPR Non-expressor of pathogenesis-related genes
Nrf NF-E2-related factor
Ns Nicotiana sylvestris
Nt Nicotiana tabacum (tobacco)
Os Orzya sativa (rice)
P. syringae Pseudomonas syringae
PAMP Pathogen associated molecular pattern
PBS avrPphB susceptible
Pc Petroselinum crispum (parsley)
PDF Plant defensin
Pep25 25 amino acids from the 42-kDa Phytophthora sojae glycoprotein elicitor
PEST domain Enriched in proline, glutamate, serine, threonine
PHOR Photoperiod-responsive
Phy Phytochrome
PI-II Proteinase inhibitor-II
PIL PIF3-like
PIN Pin-formed
POZ Pox virus and zinc finger
PR Pathogenesis-related
pRB Phosphorylated retinoblastoma tumour suppressor protein
PUB Plant U-box
R gene/protein Resistance gene/protein
RAC ras-related C3 botulinum toxin substrate
RAR Required for MlA12 resistance
RBX RING-box protein, same as ROC1 and Hrt1p
RCE RUB conjugating enzyme
Rcy Recycling
RdRp RNA-dependent RNA polymerase
RGA Repressor of ga1-3
RGL RGA-like
RGS Epitope tag with arginine-glycine-serine upstream of a polyhistidine tract
RHA RING-H2 group A
RIN RPM1-interacting protein
RING Really interesting new gene protein domain
RMA RING finger protein with membrane anchor
RNAi RNA interference
ROC Regulator of cullins
RPD Reduced potassium dependency
RPM Resistance to Pseudomonas syringae pv. maculicola
RPN Regulatory particle non-ATPase
RPS Resistance to Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato
RUB Related to ubiquitin
Rubisco Ribulose 1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase
Rx R protein conferring resistance to potato virus X
SA Salicylic acid
SAI Salicylic acid insensitive
SAR Systemic acquired resistance
SCF Skp1-Cullin1-F-box
SGT Suppressor of G2 allele of skp1
Siah Seven in absentia homologue
SINA Seven in absentia
SINAT SINA of Arabidopsis thaliana
SIP Siah-interacting protein
SIPK Salicylic-acid induced protein kinase
SKP S phase kinase-associated protein
Sl Solanum lycopersicum (tomato)
SLN Slender
SLR Slender rice
SLY Sleepy
SNE Sneezy
SON Suppressor of nim1-1
Spd S-phase delayed
Spl Spotted leaf
TGA Bind to DNA element with core sequence TGACG
TIR1 Transport inhibitor response1
TIR-NBS-LRR Toll Interleukin1 Receptor–Nucleotide Binding Site–Leucine-Rich Repeat
TLP TUBBY-like protein
TMV Tobacco mosaic virus
ToMV Tomato mosaic virus
TYMV Turnip yellow mosaic virus
Ub Ubiquitin
UBA Ubiquitin activating enzyme
UBC Ubiquitin conjugating enzyme
UbDHFR Ubiquitin fused to the N-terminus of dihydrofolate reductase
UbKn Ubiquitin lysine n, where n indicates specific lysine residue
U-box UFD2-homology domain
UEV Ubiquitin-conjugating E2 enzyme variant
UFO Unusual floral organs
UPL Ubiquitin protein ligase
UPS Ubiquitin proteasome system
VIP Vir-E2 interacting protein
VirE2 Virulence E2
VirF Virulence F
WD40 ∼40-amino-acid residue domain with tryptophan and aspartate residues in conserved positions
WDXR Motif with the sequence tryptophan-aspartate-any amino acid-arginine.
Wnt Wingless and int proteins
XBAT XB3 orthologue 2 in Arabidopsis thaliana
XB3 Rice Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae resistance 21 binding protein

* Numbers at the end of abbreviations have been removed when they do not convey functional information. All genes/proteins found in the text with the same abbreviations (but different numbers) have the same names.