Entrez 5442 | Ensembl ENSG00000099821 | |
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Aliases POLRMT, APOLMT, MTRNAP, MTRPOL, h-mtRPOL, polymerase (RNA) mitochondrial External IDs MGI: 1915843 HomoloGene: 37996 GeneCards: POLRMT | ||
DNA-directed RNA polymerase, mitochondrial is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the POLRMT gene.
Function
This gene encodes a mitochondrial DNA-directed RNA polymerase. The gene product is responsible for mitochondrial gene expression as well as for providing RNA primers for initiation of replication of the mitochondrial genome. Although this polypeptide has the same function as the three nuclear DNA-directed RNA polymerases, it is more closely related to RNA polymerases of bacteriophage and mitochondrial polymerases of lower eukaryotes.
References
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