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ArticleScientific reports2020

RNA polymerase II subunit D is essential for zebrafish development.

Masanari Maeta, Miku Kataoka, Yusuke Nishiya, Kazutoyo Ogino, Makoto Kashima, Hiromi Hirata

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Article in Scientific reports, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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Masanari MaetaDepartment of Chemistry and Biological Science, College of Science and Engineering, Aoyama Gakuin University, Sagamihara, 252-5258, Japan.
Miku KataokaDepartment of Chemistry and Biological Science, College of Science and Engineering, Aoyama Gakuin University, Sagamihara, 252-5258, Japan.
Yusuke NishiyaDepartment of Chemistry and Biological Science, College of Science and Engineering, Aoyama Gakuin University, Sagamihara, 252-5258, Japan.
Kazutoyo OginoDepartment of Chemistry and Biological Science, College of Science and Engineering, Aoyama Gakuin University, Sagamihara, 252-5258, Japan.
Makoto KashimaDepartment of Chemistry and Biological Science, College of Science and Engineering, Aoyama Gakuin University, Sagamihara, 252-5258, Japan.
Hiromi HirataDepartment of Chemistry and Biological Science, College of Science and Engineering, Aoyama Gakuin University, Sagamihara, 252-5258, Japan. hihirata@chem.aoyama.ac.jp.
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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

DNA-directed RNA polymerase II (pol II) is composed of ten core and two dissociable subunits. The dissociable subcomplex is a heterodimer of Rpb4/Polr2d and Rpb7/Polr2g, which are encoded by RPB4/polr2d and RPB7/polr2g genes, respectively. Functional studies of Rpb4/Polr2d in yeast have revealed that Rpb4 plays a role primarily in pol II-mediated RNA synthesis and partly in various mRNA regulations including pre-mRNA splicing, nuclear export of mRNAs and decay of mRNAs. Although Rpb4 is evolutionally highly conserved from yeast to human, it is dispensable for survival in budding yeast S. cerevisiae, whereas it was indispensable for survival in fission yeast S. pombe, slime molds and fruit fly. To elucidate whether Rpb4/Polr2d is necessary for development and survival of vertebrate animals, we generated polr2d-deficient zebrafish. The polr2d mutant embryos exhibited progressive delay of somitogenesis at the onset of 11 h postfertilization (hpf). Mutant embryos then showed increased cell death at 15 hpf, displayed hypoplasia such as small eye and cardiac edema by 48 hpf and prematurely died by 60 hpf. In accordance with these developmental defects, our RT-qPCR revealed that expression of housekeeping and zygotic genes was diminished in mutants. Collectively, we conclude that Rpb4/Polr2d is indispensable for vertebrate development.

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Amino Acid SequenceAnimalsCell DeathEmbryonic DevelopmentHumansMutationProtein SubunitsRNA, MessengerRNA Polymerase IISequence AlignmentZebrafishProtein SubunitsRNA, MessengerRNA Polymerase II

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