Significance To Polymerase
RNA polymerase II is known to be in effect during transcriptional termination; it works with a 5’ exonuclease (human gene Xrn2) to degrade the newly formed transcript downstream, leaving the polyadenylation site and simultaneously shooting the polymerase. This process involves the exonuclease's catching up to the pol II and terminating the transcription.
Pol I then synthesizes DNA nucleotides in place of the RNA primer it had just removed. DNA polymerase I also has 3' to 5' exonuclease activity, which is used in editing and proofreading DNA for errors.
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