Nature Communications (Jun 2017)

Single-peptide DNA-dependent RNA polymerase homologous to multi-subunit RNA polymerase

  • David Forrest,
  • Katherine James,
  • Yulia Yuzenkova,
  • Nikolay Zenkin

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms15774
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Although all known RNA polymerases have multiple subunits, unrelated single-subunit polymerases have also been described. Here, the authors describe a single-subunit RNA polymerase from the SPβ prophage ofBacillus subtilis, which shares homology to multi-subunit enzymes.