Percent of the transcripts produced by RNA polymerase II that encode ribosomal proteins and ribosome assembly factors

Range ≥60 %
Organism Budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Reference Woolford JL Jr, Baserga SJ. Ribosome biogenesis in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Genetics. 2013 Nov195(3):643-81. doi: 10.1534/genetics.113.153197. p.645 left column top paragraphPubMed ID24190922
Comments "RNA polymerases I and III transcribe the rRNAs. The messenger (m)RNAs encoding rproteins and ribosome assembly factors comprise at least 60% of the transcripts produced by RNA polymerase II and ultimately translated by ribosomes."
Entered by Uri M
ID 110021