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Subunit Compositions of the RNA-Silencing Enzymes Pol IV and Pol V Reveal Their Origins as Specialized Forms of RNA Polymerase II .Citation
Ream TS, JR Haag, AT Wierzbicki, CD Nicora, AD Norbeck, JK Zhu, G Hagen, TJ Guilfoyle, L Pasa-Tolic, and CS Pikaard.2009."Subunit Compositions of the RNA-Silencing Enzymes Pol IV and Pol V Reveal Their Origins as Specialized Forms of RNA Polymerase II ."Molecular Cell 33(2):192-203. doi:doi:10.1016/j.molcel.2008.12.015
Abstract
In addition to RNA polymerases I, II and III, which are multi-subunit RNA polymerases found in all eukaryotes, plants have catalytic subunits for two additional nuclear RNA polymerases, abbreviated as Pol IV and Pol V (formerly Pol IVa and Pol IVb, respectively). Pol IV and Pol V play non-redundant roles in siRNA-directed DNA methylation and gene silencing pathways.
