POLRMT
Gene Information
- Official Symbol: POLRMT
- Official Name: RNA polymerase mitochondrial
- Aliases and Previous Symbols: N/A
- Entrez ID: 5442
- UniProt: O00411
- Interactions: BioGRID
- PubMed articles: Open PubMed
- OMIM: Open OMIM
Function Summary
- Entrez Summary: 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 phage and mitochondrial polymerases of lower eukaryotes. [provided by RefSeq, Jul 2008].
- UniProt Summary: DNA-dependent RNA polymerase catalyzes the transcription of mitochondrial DNA into RNA using the four ribonucleoside triphosphates as substrates. {ECO:0000269|PubMed:21278163}.
CRISPR Data
Essentiality in NALM6
- Essentiality Rank: 508
- Expression level (log2 read counts): 7.01