DNA-directed RNA polymerase activity
Term Information
- Accession
- GO:0003899
- Ontology
- molecular function
- Synonyms
- related: C ribonucleic acid formation factors
- related: C RNA formation factors
- narrow: DNA-directed RNA polymerase I activity
- narrow: DNA-directed RNA polymerase II activity
- narrow: DNA-directed RNA polymerase III activity
- narrow: RNA polymerase I activity
- narrow: RNA polymerase II activity
- narrow: RNA polymerase III activity
- alt_id: GO:0000129
- exact: deoxyribonucleic acid-dependent ribonucleic acid polymerase activity
- exact: DNA-dependent ribonucleate nucleotidyltransferase activity
- exact: DNA-dependent RNA nucleotidyltransferase activity
- exact: DNA-dependent RNA polymerase activity
- exact: nucleoside-triphosphate:RNA nucleotidyltransferase (DNA-directed) activity
- exact: RNA nucleotidyltransferase (DNA-directed) activity
- broad: transcriptase
- Definition
- Catalysis of the reaction: nucleoside triphosphate + RNA(n) = diphosphate + RNA(n+1). Utilizes a DNA template, i.e. the catalysis of DNA-template-directed extension of the 3'-end of an RNA strand by one nucleotide at a time. Can initiate a chain 'de novo'. [source:
EC:2.7.7.6]
- Comment
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