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Mutation of RNA Pol III subunit rpc2/polr3b Leads to Deficiency of Subunit Rpc11 and disrupts zebrafish digestive development.
PLoS biology - 1 Nov 2007
Yee Nelson S, Gong Weilong, Huang Ying, Lorent Kristin, Dolan Amy C, Maraia Richard J, Pack Michael
Abstract excerpt
The role of RNA polymerase III (Pol III) in developing vertebrates has not been examined. Here, we identify a causative mutation of the second largest Pol III subunit, polr3b, that disrupts digestive organ development in zebrafish slim jim (slj) mutants. The slj mutation is a splice-site substitution that causes deletion of a conserved tract of 41 amino acids in the Polr3b protein. Structural considerations...
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