Archaebacteria and Eukaryotes Possess DNA-dependent RNA Polymerases of a Common Type

Overview

Journal EMBO J

Specialties Biotechnology
Molecular Biology

Date 1983 Jan 1

PMID 10872322

Citations 53

Authors

J Huet

R Schnabel

A Sentenac

W Zillig

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Abstract

DNA-dependent RNA polymerases of archaebacteria not only resemble the nuclear RNA polymerases of eukaryotes rather than the eubacterial enzymes in their complex component patterns but also show striking immunochemical, i.e., structural, homology with the eukaryotic polymerases at the level of single components. Thus, eukaryotic and archaebacterial RNA polymerases are indeed of the same type, distinct from the eubacterial enzymes, which, however, are also derived from a common ancestral structure.

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