PF01192

RNA polymerase Rpb6

Pfam entry
Member databasePfam
Pfam typefamily
Short nameRNA_pol_Rpb6
Author Finn RD;0000-0001-8626-2148
Sequence Ontology0100021

Description

Rpb6 is an essential subunit in the eukaryotic polymerases Pol I, II and III. This family also contains the bacterial equivalent to Rpb6, the omega subunit. Rpb6 and omega are structurally conserved and both function in polymerase assembly
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References

1.Bacterial RNA polymerase subunit omega and eukaryotic RNA polymerase subunit RPB6 are sequence, structural, and functional homologs and promote RNA polymerase assembly. Minakhin L, Bhagat S, Brunning A, Campbell EA, Darst SA, Ebright RH, Severinov K. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 98, 892-7, (2001). View articlePMID: 11158566

Further reading

2. The evolving story of the omega subunit of bacterial RNA polymerase. Mathew R, Chatterji D. Trends Microbiol 14, 450-5, (2006). View articlePMID: 16908155

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