Mechanisms of lncRNA biogenesis as revealed by nascent transcriptomics

T Nojima, NJ Proudfoot - Nature reviews Molecular cell biology, 2022 - nature.com
Mammalian genomes express two principal gene categories through RNA polymerase II-
mediated transcription: protein-coding transcription units and non-coding RNA transcription …

Integrator is a global promoter-proximal termination complex

EJ Wagner, L Tong, K Adelman - Molecular cell, 2023 - cell.com
Integrator is a metazoan-specific protein complex capable of inducing termination at all
RNAPII-transcribed loci. Integrator recognizes paused, promoter-proximal RNAPII and …

Integrator endonuclease drives promoter-proximal termination at all RNA polymerase II-transcribed loci

CB Stein, AR Field, CA Mimoso, CC Zhao, KL Huang… - Molecular cell, 2022 - cell.com
Summary RNA polymerase II (RNAPII) pausing in early elongation is critical for gene
regulation. Paused RNAPII can be released into productive elongation by the kinase P-TEFb …

Structural basis of Integrator-mediated transcription regulation

I Fianu, Y Chen, C Dienemann, O Dybkov, A Linden… - Science, 2021 - science.org
Integrator and protein phosphatase 2A (PP2A) form a complex that dephosphorylates
paused RNA polymerase II (Pol II), cleaves the nascent RNA, and terminates transcription …

Structural insights into nuclear transcription by eukaryotic DNA-dependent RNA polymerases

M Girbig, AD Misiaszek, CW Müller - Nature Reviews Molecular Cell …, 2022 - nature.com
The eukaryotic transcription apparatus synthesizes a staggering diversity of RNA molecules.
The labour of nuclear gene transcription is, therefore, divided among multiple DNA …

Causes and consequences of RNA polymerase II stalling during transcript elongation

M Noe Gonzalez, D Blears, JQ Svejstrup - Nature reviews Molecular …, 2021 - nature.com
The journey of RNA polymerase II (Pol II) as it transcribes a gene is anything but a smooth
ride. Transcript elongation is discontinuous and can be perturbed by intrinsic regulatory …

Genomic regulation of transcription and RNA processing by the multitasking Integrator complex

SA Welsh, A Gardini - Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology, 2023 - nature.com
In higher eukaryotes, fine-tuned activation of protein-coding genes and many non-coding
RNAs pivots around the regulated activity of RNA polymerase II (Pol II). The Integrator …

Regulation of human telomerase in homeostasis and disease

CM Roake, SE Artandi - Nature reviews Molecular cell biology, 2020 - nature.com
Telomerase is a ribonucleoprotein complex, the catalytic core of which includes the
telomerase reverse transcriptase (TERT) and the non-coding human telomerase RNA (hTR) …

Roles, functions, and mechanisms of long non-coding RNAs in cancer

Y Fang, MJ Fullwood - Genomics, Proteomics and …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) play important roles in cancer. They are involved in
chromatin remodeling, as well as transcriptional and post-transcriptional regulation, through …

[HTML][HTML] The PP2A-Integrator-CDK9 axis fine-tunes transcription and can be targeted therapeutically in cancer

SJ Vervoort, SA Welsh, JR Devlin, E Barbieri… - Cell, 2021 - cell.com
Gene expression by RNA polymerase II (RNAPII) is tightly controlled by cyclin-dependent
kinases (CDKs) at discrete checkpoints during the transcription cycle. The pausing …