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 …

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 …

H3K4me3 regulates RNA polymerase II promoter-proximal pause-release

H Wang, Z Fan, PV Shliaha, M Miele, RC Hendrickson… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Trimethylation of histone H3 lysine 4 (H3K4me3) is associated with transcriptional start sites
and has been proposed to regulate transcription initiation,. However, redundant functions of …

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 …

Transcriptional elongation control in developmental gene expression, aging, and disease

Y Aoi, A Shilatifard - Molecular cell, 2023 - cell.com
The elongation stage of transcription by RNA polymerase II (RNA Pol II) is central to the
regulation of gene expression in response to developmental and environmental cues in …

Downstream-of-gene (DoG) transcripts contribute to an imbalance in the cancer cell transcriptome

K Abe, B Maunze, PA Lopez, J Xu, N Muhammad… - Science …, 2024 - science.org
Downstream-of-gene (DoG) transcripts are an emerging class of noncoding RNAs.
However, it remains largely unknown how DoG RNA production is regulated and whether …

Integrator facilitates RNAPII removal to prevent transcription-replication collisions and genome instability

R Bhowmick, KPM Mehta, M Lerdrup, D Cortez - Molecular Cell, 2023 - cell.com
DNA replication preferentially initiates close to active transcription start sites (TSSs) in the
human genome. Transcription proceeds discontinuously with an accumulation of RNA …

Transcription directionality is licensed by Integrator at active human promoters

J Yang, J Li, L Miao, X Gao, W Sun, S Linghu… - Nature Structural & …, 2024 - nature.com
A universal characteristic of eukaryotic transcription is that the promoter recruits RNA
polymerase II (RNAPII) to produce both precursor mRNAs (pre-mRNAs) and short unstable …

Structural advances in transcription elongation

AA Mohamed, RV Nunez, SM Vos - Current opinion in structural biology, 2022 - Elsevier
Transcription is the first step of gene expression and involves RNA polymerases. After
transcription initiation, RNA polymerase enters elongation followed by transcription …

[HTML][HTML] Alternative cleavage and polyadenylation generates downstream uncapped RNA isoforms with translation potential

Y Malka, F Alkan, S Ju, PR Körner, A Pataskar… - Molecular Cell, 2022 - cell.com
The use of alternative promoters, splicing, and cleavage and polyadenylation (APA)
generates mRNA isoforms that expand the diversity and complexity of the transcriptome …