POLRMT

Polymerase (RNA) mitochondrial (DNA directed)
Available structures
PDB Ortholog search: PDBe, RCSB
Identifiers
SymbolsPOLRMT ; APOLMT; MTRNAP; MTRPOL; h-mtRPOL
External IDsOMIM: 601778 MGI: 1915843 HomoloGene: 37996 GeneCards: POLRMT Gene
EC number2.7.7.6
RNA expression pattern
More reference expression data
Orthologs
SpeciesHumanMouse
Entrez5442216151
EnsemblENSG00000099821ENSMUSG00000020329
UniProtO00411Q8BKF1
RefSeq (mRNA)NM_005035NM_172551
RefSeq (protein)NP_005026NP_766139
Location (UCSC)Chr 19:
0.62 – 0.63 Mb
Chr 10:
79.74 – 79.75 Mb
PubMed search

DNA-directed RNA polymerase, mitochondrial is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the POLRMT gene.[1][2]

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 and mitochondrial polymerases of lower eukaryotes.[2]

References

  1. Tiranti V, Savoia A, Forti F, D'Apolito MF, Centra M, Rocchi M, Zeviani M (Jul 1997). "Identification of the gene encoding the human mitochondrial RNA polymerase (h-mtRPOL) by cyberscreening of the Expressed Sequence Tags database". Hum Mol Genet 6 (4): 615–25. doi:10.1093/hmg/6.4.615. PMID 9097968.
  2. 2.0 2.1 "Entrez Gene: POLRMT polymerase (RNA) mitochondrial (DNA directed)".

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