PROSITE documentation PDOC00855RNA polymerases K / 14 to 18 Kd subunits signature
In eukaryotes, there are three different forms of DNA-dependent RNA polymerases (EC 2.7.7.6) transcribing different sets of genes. Each class of RNA polymerase is an assemblage of ten to twelve different polypeptides. In archaebacteria, there is generally a single form of RNA polymerase which also consist of an oligomeric assemblage of 10 to 13 polypeptides.
A component of 14 to 18 Kd shared by all three forms of eukaryotic RNA polymerases and which has been sequenced in budding yeast (gene RPB6 or RPO26), in fission yeast (gene rpb6 or rpo15), in human and in African swine fever virus [1] is evolutionary related [2] to archaebacterial subunit K (gene rpoK). The archaebacterial protein is colinear with the C-terminal part of the eukaryotic subunit.
Last update:November 1997 / Pattern and text revised.
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| 1 | Authors | Lu Z. Kutish G.F. Sussman M.D. Rock D.L. |
| Title | An African swine fever virus gene with a similarity to eukaryotic RNA polymerase subunit 6. | |
| Source | Nucleic Acids Res. 21:2940-2940(1993). | |
| PubMed ID | 8332503 |
| 2 | Authors | McKune K. Woychik N.A. |
| Title | Halobacterial S9 operon contains two genes encoding proteins homologous to subunits shared by eukaryotic RNA polymerases I, II, and III. | |
| Source | J. Bacteriol. 176:4754-4756(1994). | |
| PubMed ID | 8045907 |
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