Description |
crn-3 encodes a cell death-related nuclease, homologous to the 100 kDa polymyositis/scleroderma autoantigen (PM/Scl-100), that is required for normal levels of DNA degradation during apoptosis; PM/Scl-100 is a ribonuclease component of the multiexonuclease exosome complex, which processes or degrades several types of RNAs in yeast; crn-3(RNAi) animals show retarded growth and a low penetrance of embryonic lethality; CRN-3 promotes both DNA degradation and cell corpse engulfment, in a partially redundant pathway that includes CRN-2 but is parallel to CPS-6; CRN-3 is predicted to be mitochondrial. |