[HTML][HTML] Widespread rearrangement of 3D chromatin organization underlies polycomb-mediated stress-induced silencing

L Li, X Lyu, C Hou, N Takenaka, HQ Nguyen, CT Ong… - Molecular cell, 2015 - cell.com
Chromosomes of metazoan organisms are partitioned in the interphase nucleus into
discrete topologically associating domains (TADs). Borders between TADs are formed in …

Pre-mRNA splicing is facilitated by an optimal RNA polymerase II elongation rate

N Fong, H Kim, Y Zhou, X Ji, J Qiu, T Saldi… - Genes & …, 2014 - genesdev.cshlp.org
Alternative splicing modulates expression of most human genes. The kinetic model of
cotranscriptional splicing suggests that slow elongation expands and that fast elongation …

[HTML][HTML] Elevated pre-mRNA 3′ end processing activity in cancer cells renders vulnerability to inhibition of cleavage and polyadenylation

Y Cui, L Wang, Q Ding, J Shin, J Cassel, Q Liu… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Cleavage and polyadenylation (CPA) is responsible for 3′ end processing of eukaryotic
poly (A)+ RNAs and preludes transcriptional termination. JTE-607, which targets CPSF-73 …

[HTML][HTML] CDK9-dependent RNA polymerase II pausing controls transcription initiation

S Gressel, B Schwalb, TM Decker, W Qin, H Leonhardt… - Elife, 2017 - elifesciences.org
Gene transcription can be activated by decreasing the duration of RNA polymerase II
pausing in the promoter-proximal region, but how this is achieved remains unclear. Here we …

[HTML][HTML] Control of RNA Pol II speed by PNUTS-PP1 and Spt5 dephosphorylation facilitates termination by a “sitting duck torpedo” mechanism

MA Cortazar, RM Sheridan, B Erickson, N Fong… - Molecular cell, 2019 - cell.com
Control of transcription speed, which influences many co-transcriptional processes, is poorly
understood. We report that PNUTS-PP1 phosphatase is a negative regulator of RNA …

[HTML][HTML] RNA Polymerase II cluster dynamics predict mRNA output in living cells

WK Cho, N Jayanth, BP English, T Inoue, JO Andrews… - elife, 2016 - elifesciences.org
Protein clustering is a hallmark of genome regulation in mammalian cells. However, the
dynamic molecular processes involved make it difficult to correlate clustering with functional …

[HTML][HTML] Splicing of nascent RNA coincides with intron exit from RNA polymerase II

FC Oesterreich, L Herzel, K Straube, K Hujer, J Howard… - Cell, 2016 - cell.com
Protein-coding genes in eukaryotes are transcribed by RNA polymerase II (Pol II) and
introns are removed from pre-mRNA by the spliceosome. Understanding the time lag …

[HTML][HTML] Integrator is a genome-wide attenuator of non-productive transcription

S Lykke-Andersen, K Žumer, EŠ Molska, JO Rouvière… - Molecular cell, 2021 - cell.com
Termination of RNA polymerase II (RNAPII) transcription in metazoans relies largely on the
cleavage and polyadenylation (CPA) and integrator (INT) complexes originally found to act …

[HTML][HTML] DOT1L and H3K79 methylation in transcription and genomic stability

K Wood, M Tellier, S Murphy - Biomolecules, 2018 - mdpi.com
The organization of eukaryotic genomes into chromatin provides challenges for the cell to
accomplish basic cellular functions, such as transcription, DNA replication and repair of DNA …

A practical view of fine-mapping and gene prioritization in the post-genome-wide association era

RV Broekema, OB Bakker, IH Jonkers - Open biology, 2020 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Over the past 15 years, genome-wide association studies (GWASs) have enabled the
systematic identification of genetic loci associated with traits and diseases. However, due to …