Article
Drosophila RNase H1 is essential for development but not for proliferation.
Molecular genetics and genomics : MGG - 1 Jul 2001
Filippov V, Filippov M, Gill S S
Abstract excerpt
Ribonucleases H (RNases H) recognize and specifically degrade RNA that is bound to complementary DNA and are thought to be involved in DNA replication and transcriptional regulation. Though it was previously shown that bacterial RNases H participate in DNA synthesis, none of the known mutations in RNase H genes in either prokaryotes or lower eukaryotes is lethal. Here, we report the characterization of the first...
Topics
- Animals
- Cell Differentiation
- Cell Division
- DNA Replication
- Drosophila melanogaster
- Gene Expression Regulation, Developmental
- Genes, Insect
- Mutation
- Ribonuclease H
