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SUBMITTER: Richter U
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3895441 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Richter Uwe U Richter Björn B Weihe Andreas A Börner Thomas T
Current genetics 20130912 1
In most organisms, the mitochondrial genes are transcribed by RNA polymerases related to the single-subunit RNA polymerases of bacteriophages like T3 and T7. In flowering plants, duplication(s) of the RpoTm gene coding for the mitochondrial RNA polymerase (RPOTm) led to the evolution of additional RNA polymerases transcribing genes in plastids (RPOTp) or in both mitochondria and plastids (RPOTmp). Two putative RPOTmp enzymes were previously described to be encoded by the nuclear genes RpoTmp1 an ...[more]