Question

Death cap mushrooms produce a substance called alpha-amanitin. Alpha-amanitin efficiently blocks synthesis of mRNA, but not of tRNA or rRNA in eukaryotic organisms. This is possible because alpha-amanitin efficiently interferes with _____.

Answer 1

Death cap mushrooms produce a substance called alpha-amanitin. Alpha-amanitin efficiently blocks synthesis of mRNA, but not of tRNA or rRNA in eukaryotic organisms. This is possible because alpha-amanitin efficiently interferes withalpha-amanitin efficiently interferes with THE ACTION OF RNA POLYMERASE II, BUT NOT RNA POLYMERASE I or III.