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Identification of an ortholog of the eukaryotic RNA polymerase III subunit RPC34 in Crenarchaeota and Thaumarchaeota suggests specialization of RNA polymerases for coding and non-coding RNAs in Archaea

Fabian Blombach1*, Kira S Makarova2, Jeannette Marrero3, Bettina Siebers3, Eugene V Koonin2 and John Oost1

Author Affiliations

1 Laboratory of Microbiology, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands

2 National Center for Biotechnology Information, NLM, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20894, USA

3 University Duisburg-Essen, Faculty of Chemistry, Biofilm Centre, Molecular Enzyme Technology and Biochemistry, Lotharstrasse, Duisburg, Germany

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Biology Direct 2009, 4:39 doi:10.1186/1745-6150-4-39

Published: 14 October 2009

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Additional file 1:

The list of all identified RPC34 representatives in archaeal genomes, selected eukaryotic orthologs and selected MarR-family wHTH transcriptional regulators. The data provided represent list of all identified RPC34 representatives in archaeal genomes proteins and other proteins that were further analyzed in this work.

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Additional file 2:

The phylogenetic tree in rectangular format. The phylogenetic tree in rectangular format with bootstrap values and full names of organisms used for tree reconstruction.

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