Transcriptomic profiling of Arabidopsis DNA POLYMERASE EPSILON CATALYTIC SUBUNIT A (AtPOL2a) and B (AtPOL2b) mutants

The evolutionary and functional importance of AtPOL2a and AtPOL2b allowed us to study these two genes in-depth at a molecular level. Here we report transcriptomes of single gene mutants of AtPOL2s at a global scale using the Illumina HiSeq 2000 platform. This includes a homozygous T-DNA mutant line of AtPOL2a (NASC accession number: N676289) and three homozygous T-DNA lines of AtPOL2b (NASC accession numbers: N859810, N501413 and N859809), confirmed through PCR to have insertions spanning across different positions of the genes. The transcript levels of genes were compared between wild type and AtPOL2 mutants to gain insight into potential interactions at a transcriptomic level.