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Identification of a novel human nuclear-encoded mitochondrial poly(A) polymerase.


ABSTRACT: We report here on the identification of a novel human nuclear-encoded mitochondrial poly(A) polymerase. Immunocytochemical experiments confirm that the enzyme indeed localizes to mitochondrial compartment. Inhibition of expression of the enzyme by RNA interference results in significant shortening of the poly(A) tails of the mitochondrial ND3, COX III and ATP 6/8 transcripts, suggesting that the investigated protein represents a bona fide mitochondrial poly(A) polymerase. This is in agreement with our sequencing data which show that poly(A) tails of several mitochondrial messengers are composed almost exclusively of adenosine residues. Moreover, the data presented here indicate that all analyzed mitochondrial transcripts with profoundly shortened poly(A) tails are relatively stable, which in turn argues against the direct role of long poly(A) extensions in the stabilization of human mitochondrial messengers.

SUBMITTER: Tomecki R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC534615 | biostudies-literature | 2004

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Identification of a novel human nuclear-encoded mitochondrial poly(A) polymerase.

Tomecki Rafal R   Tomecki Rafal R   Dmochowska Aleksandra A   Gewartowski Kamil K   Dziembowski Andrzej A   Stepien Piotr P PP  

Nucleic acids research 20041116 20


We report here on the identification of a novel human nuclear-encoded mitochondrial poly(A) polymerase. Immunocytochemical experiments confirm that the enzyme indeed localizes to mitochondrial compartment. Inhibition of expression of the enzyme by RNA interference results in significant shortening of the poly(A) tails of the mitochondrial ND3, COX III and ATP 6/8 transcripts, suggesting that the investigated protein represents a bona fide mitochondrial poly(A) polymerase. This is in agreement wi  ...[more]

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