AL2 — Brassica oleracea

Summary

BoAL2, encoded by the gene BOLC102_C03P047050.1_BOLC102_V1 on chromosome 3 of cabbage (Brassica oleracea), is a transcriptional co-regulator with histone-binding, transcription cis-regulatory region-binding, zinc-binding and protein-binding activities, and contains Alfin and PHD zinc-finger domains. It is associated with viral gene expression, tropism, protein modification, cellular monoatomic cation homeostasis, maintenance of inflorescence meristem identity, cell fate determination, maintenance of floral meristem identity, maintenance of shoot apical meristem identity, post-transcriptional gene silencing, epigenetic downregulation of gene expression, root hair elongation, chromatin organization, response to stress, cellular response to phosphate starvation, cell cycle, downregulation of transcription, root development and DNA-dependent transcription. The gene is linked to traits including carpel morphology, vegetative to reproductive phase transition, meristem tissue development, jasmonic acid sensitivity, abscisic acid sensitivity, arsenic concentration, hypocotyl morphology, root morphology, seed growth and development, and flowering time. It localises to the nucleus, cytoplasm, mitochondria and PRC1 complex. Related genes in other species link the family to gene silencing.