POLRMT

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POLRMT
Available structures
Gene ontology
Molecular function
Cellular component
Biological process
Sources:Amigo / QuickGO
Ensembl
UniProt
RefSeq (mRNA)

NM_005035

NM_172551

RefSeq (protein)

NP_005026

Location (UCSC)Chr 19: 0.62 – 0.63 MbChr 10: 79.57 – 79.58 Mb
PubMed search[3][4]
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DNA-directed RNA polymerase, mitochondrial is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the POLRMT gene.[5][6]

Function

This gene encodes a mitochondrial DNA-directed RNA polymerase. The gene product is responsible for mitochondrial gene expression as well as for providing RNA primers for initiation of replication of the mitochondrial genome. Although this polypeptide has the same function as the three nuclear DNA-directed RNA polymerases, it is more closely related to RNA polymerases of bacteriophage (including T7 RNA polymerase), mitochondrial polymerases of lower eukaryotes as well as chloroplastic RpoT polymerases.[6]

Structure

The structure of the enzyme has been solved. It exhibits an overall structure similar to that of phage RNAP, but the initiation mechanism is different in that it requires initiation factors TFAM (only in mammals) and TFB2M.[7] Elongation requires the elongation factor TEFM.[8] The exact termination process is less understood, but MTERF1 is thought to play a role.[9]

References

  1. ^ a b c GRCh38: Ensembl release 89: ENSG00000099821Ensembl, May 2017
  2. ^ a b c GRCm38: Ensembl release 89: ENSMUSG00000020329Ensembl, May 2017
  3. ^ "Human PubMed Reference:". National Center for Biotechnology Information, U.S. National Library of Medicine.
  4. ^ "Mouse PubMed Reference:". National Center for Biotechnology Information, U.S. National Library of Medicine.
  5. PMID 9097968
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  6. ^ a b "Entrez Gene: POLRMT polymerase (RNA) mitochondrial (DNA directed)".
  7. PMID 29149603
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