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SUBMITTER: Tomecki R
PROVIDER: S-EPMC534615 | biostudies-literature | 2004
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
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]