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Table 3 Family specificity of putative miRNA-targeted transcription factors

From: Prediction and identification of Arabidopsis thaliana microRNAs and their mRNA targets

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%

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