Promoter-proximal pausing of RNA polymerase II: a nexus of gene regulation

L Core, K Adelman - Genes & development, 2019 - genesdev.cshlp.org
Precise spatio–temporal control of gene activity is essential for organismal development,
growth, and survival in a changing environment. Decisive steps in gene regulation involve …

Nascent RNA analyses: tracking transcription and its regulation

EM Wissink, A Vihervaara, ND Tippens… - Nature Reviews …, 2019 - nature.com
The programmes that direct an organism's development and maintenance are encoded in its
genome. Decoding of this information begins with regulated transcription of genomic DNA …

HSF1 facilitates the multistep process of lymphatic metastasis in bladder cancer via a novel PRMT5‐WDR5‐Dependent transcriptional program

M Huang, W Dong, R Xie, J Wu, Q Su… - Cancer …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Background Lymphatic metastasis has been associated with poor prognosis in bladder
cancer patients with limited therapeutic options. Emerging evidence shows that heat shock …

Rethinking HSF1 in stress, development, and organismal health

J Li, J Labbadia, RI Morimoto - Trends in cell biology, 2017 - cell.com
The heat shock response (HSR) was originally discovered as a transcriptional response to
elevated temperature shock and led to the identification of heat shock proteins and heat …

Molecular mechanisms driving transcriptional stress responses

A Vihervaara, FM Duarte, JT Lis - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2018 - nature.com
Proteotoxic stress, that is, stress caused by protein misfolding and aggregation, triggers the
rapid and global reprogramming of transcription at genes and enhancers. Genome-wide …

Heat shock proteins and HSF1 in cancer

AM Cyran, A Zhitkovich - Frontiers in oncology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Fitness of cells is dependent on protein homeostasis which is maintained by cooperative
activities of protein chaperones and proteolytic machinery. Upon encountering protein …

Roles of heat shock factor 1 beyond the heat shock response

J Barna, P Csermely, T Vellai - Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences, 2018 - Springer
Various stress factors leading to protein damage induce the activation of an evolutionarily
conserved cell protective mechanism, the heat shock response (HSR), to maintain protein …

Live-cell imaging of RNA Pol II and elongation factors distinguishes competing mechanisms of transcription regulation

P Versluis, TGW Graham, V Eng, J Ebenezer… - Molecular Cell, 2024 - cell.com
Summary RNA polymerase II (RNA Pol II)-mediated transcription is a critical, highly
regulated process aided by protein complexes at distinct steps. Here, to investigate RNA Pol …

Mettl3-dependent m6A modification attenuates the brain stress response in Drosophila

AE Perlegos, EJ Shields, H Shen, KF Liu… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract N 6-methyladenosine (m6A), the most prevalent internal modification on eukaryotic
mRNA, plays an essential role in various stress responses. The brain is uniquely vulnerable …

Transcriptional reprogramming at the intersection of the heat shock response and proteostasis

JC Pessa, J Joutsen, L Sistonen - Molecular Cell, 2024 - cell.com
Cellular homeostasis is constantly challenged by a myriad of extrinsic and intrinsic stressors.
To mitigate the stress-induced damage, cells activate transient survival programs. The heat …