Function
Transcription factor required for normal cell differentiation. Positively regulates LATERAL ORGAN BOUNDARIES (LOB) within the shoot apex, and the class III HD-ZIP genes REV, PHB, and PHV. Interacts directly with ASYMMETRIC LEAVES 2 (LBD6/AS2) to repress the knox homeobox genes BP/KNAT1, KNAT2, and KNAT6 and the abaxial determinants ARF3/ETT, KAN2 and YAB5. May act in parallel with the RDR6-SGS3-AGO7 pathway, an endogenous RNA silencing pathway, to regulate the leaf morphogenesis (PubMed:11076771, PubMed:11140682, PubMed:11882937, PubMed:12750468, PubMed:16006579, PubMed:16699177, PubMed:17395603, PubMed:17559509, PubMed:23271976). Binds directly to KNAT1, KNAT2, and KNATM chromatin, regulating leaf development (PubMed:23271976). LBD6 is required for this binding (PubMed:23271976). Positive regulator of flowering that binds to the promoter of FT (PubMed:21950734). Regulates FT expression by forming a functional complex with CO (PubMed:21950734). Involved in leaf polarity establishment by functioning cooperatively with NUCL1 to repress abaxial genes ARF3, ARF4, KAN1, KAN2, YAB1 and YAB5, and the knox homeobox genes KNAT1, KNAT2, KNAT6, and STM to promote adaxial development in leaf primordia at shoot apical meristems at high temperatures (PubMed:27334696).
Sequence
MKERQRWSGEEDALLRAYVRQFGPREWHLVSERMNKPLNRDAKSCLERWKNYLKPGIKKGSLTEEEQRLVIRLQEKHGNKWKKIAAEVPGRTAKRLGKWWEVFKEKQQREEKESNKRVEPIDESKYDRILESFAEKLVKERSNVVPAAAAAATVVMANSNGGFLHSEQQVQPPNPVIPPWLATSNNGNNVVARPPSVTLTLSPSTVAAAAPQPPIPWLQQQQPERAENGPGGLVLGSMMPSCSGSSESVFLSELVECCRELEEGHRAWADHKKEAAWRLRRLELQLESEKTCRQREKMEEIEAKMKALREEQKNAMEKIEGEYREQLVGLRRDAEAKDQKLADQWTSRHIRLTKFLEQQMGCRLDRP