This entry represents a likely nuclear localisation motif that is found in the plant NINJA and AFP proteins. NINJA proteins are Novel INteractor of JAZ proteins found in plants. NINJA proteins act as a transcriptional repressor, the activity of which is mediated by a functional TPL-binding EAR repression motif upstream from this domain [1,2].

1: NINJA connects the co-repressor TOPLESS to jasmonate signalling. Pauwels L, Barbero GF, Geerinck J, Tilleman S, Grunewald W, Perez AC, Chico JM, Bossche RV, Sewell J, Gil E, Garcia-Casado G, Witters E, Inze D, Long JA, De Jaeger G, Solano R, Goossens A; Nature. 2010;464:788-791. PMID:20360743

2: A small plant-specific protein family of ABI five binding proteins (AFPs) regulates stress response in germinating Arabidopsis seeds and seedlings. Garcia ME, Lynch T, Peeters J, Snowden C, Finkelstein R; Plant Mol Biol. 2008;67:643-658. PMID:18484180