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Artificial RNA Polymerase II Elongation Complexes for Dissecting Co-transcriptional RNA Processing Events
Published on: May 13, 2019
RNA capping by mitochondrial and multi-subunit RNA polymerases
Christina Julius1, Amber Riaz-Bradley1, Yulia Yuzenkova1
1a Centre for Bacterial Cell Biology , Institute for Cell and Molecular Biosciences , Newcastle University , Newcastle upon Tyne , NE2 4AX , UK.
Abstract:
Recently, it was found that bacterial and eukaryotic transcripts are capped with cellular cofactors installed by their respective RNA polymerases (RNAPs) during transcription initiation. We now show that mitochondrial RNAP efficiently caps transcripts with ADP - containing cofactors. However, a functional role of universal RNAP - catalysed capping is not yet clear.
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