POLR2B

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Polymerase (RNA) II (DNA directed) polypeptide B, 140kDa

Identifiers

POLR2B; POL2RB; RPB2; hRPB140; hsRPB2

External IDs

OMIM: 180661 MGI: 2388280 HomoloGene: 722

Gene ontology
Molecular Function:	• DNA binding • DNA-directed RNA polymerase activity • zinc ion binding • transferase activity • metal ion binding
Cellular Component:	• nucleus • DNA-directed RNA polymerase II, core complex
Biological Process:	• transcription • transcription from RNA polymerase II promoter

RNA expression pattern

More reference expression data

Orthologs

Human

Mouse

Refseq

NM_000938 (mRNA)
NP_000929 (protein)

NM_153798 (mRNA)
NP_722493 (protein)

Location

Chr 4: 57.54 - 57.59 Mb

Chr 5: 78.39 - 78.42 Mb

Pubmed search

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Polymerase (RNA) II (DNA directed) polypeptide B, 140kDa, also known as POLR2B, is a human gene.

This gene encodes the second largest subunit of RNA polymerase II, the polymerase responsible for synthesizing messenger RNA in eukaryotes. This subunit, in combination with at least two other polymerase subunits, forms a structure within the polymerase that maintains contact in the active site of the enzyme between the DNA template and the newly synthesized RNA.^[1]

[edit] References

^ Entrez Gene: POLR2B polymerase (RNA) II (DNA directed) polypeptide B, 140kDa.

[edit] Further reading

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