Sandy Mattijssen, Kyra Kerkhofs, Joshi Stephen, Acong Yang, Chen G Han, Yokoyama Tadafumi, James R Iben, Saurabh Mishra, Rima M Sakhawala, Amitabh Ranjan, Mamatha Gowda, William A Gahl, Shuo Gu, May C Malicdan, Richard J Maraia
RNA polymerase III (Pol III, POLR3) synthesizes tRNAs and other small non-coding RNAs. Human POLR3 pathogenic variants cause a range of developmental disorders, recapitulated in part by mouse models, yet some aspects of POLR3 deficiency have not been explored. We characterized a human POLR3B :c.1625A>G;p.(Asn542Ser) disease variant that was found to cause mis-splicing of POLR3B . Genome-edited POLR3B 1625A>G HEK293 cells acquired the mis-splicing with decreases in multiple POLR3 subunits and TFIIIB, although display auto-upregulation of the Pol III termination-reinitiation subunit POLR3E ...
February 5, 2024: bioRxiv