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 …

Reciprocal links between pre-messenger RNA 3′-end processing and genome stability

M Dutertre, R Sfaxi, S Vagner - Trends in Biochemical Sciences, 2021 - cell.com
The 3′-end processing of most pre-messenger RNAs (pre-mRNAs) involves RNA cleavage
and polyadenylation and is coupled to transcription termination. In both yeast and human …

Hydroxyurea and inactivation of checkpoint kinase MEC1 inhibit transcription termination and pre-mRNA cleavage at polyadenylation sites in budding yeast

P Kaur, S Nagar, R Mehta, K Sahadeo, A Vancura - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
The DNA damage response (DDR) is an evolutionarily conserved process essential for cell
survival. The transcription changes triggered by DDR depend on the nature of DNA damage …

Deficiency in classical nonhomologous end-joining–mediated repair of transcribed genes is linked to SCA3 pathogenesis

A Chakraborty, N Tapryal, T Venkova… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
Spinocerebellar ataxia type 3 (SCA3) is a dominantly inherited neurodegenerative disease
caused by CAG (encoding glutamine) repeat expansion in the Ataxin-3 (ATXN3) gene. We …

[HTML][HTML] Mechanisms of RNA Polymerase II termination at the 3'-end of genes

DL Martinez, JQ Svejstrup - Journal of Molecular Biology, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract RNA polymerase II (RNAPII) is responsible for the synthesis of a diverse set of RNA
molecules, including protein-coding messenger RNAs (mRNAs) and many short non-coding …

Mutations in yeast Pcf11, a conserved protein essential for mRNA 3′ end processing and transcription termination, elicit the Environmental Stress Response

JH Graber, D Hoskinson, H Liu… - Genetics, 2024 - academic.oup.com
The Pcf11 protein is an essential subunit of the large complex that cleaves and
polyadenylates eukaryotic mRNA precursor. It has also been functionally linked to gene …

A versatile new tool derived from a bacterial deubiquitylase to detect and purify ubiquitylated substrates and their interacting proteins

M Zhang, JM Berk, AB Mehrtash, J Kanyo… - PLoS …, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Protein ubiquitylation is an important posttranslational modification affecting a wide range of
cellular processes. Due to the low abundance of ubiquitylated species in biological samples …

DEF1: much more than an RNA polymerase degradation factor

OT Akinniyi, JC Reese - DNA repair, 2021 - Elsevier
Degradation Factor 1 was discovered 20 years ago as a yeast protein copurifying with
Rad26, a helicase involved in transcription-coupled DNA repair. It was subsequently shown …

Ipa1 is an RNA polymerase II elongation factor that facilitates termination by maintaining levels of the poly (A) site endonuclease Ysh1

EL Pearson, JH Graber, SD Lee, KS Naggert… - Cell reports, 2019 - cell.com
The yeast protein Ipa1 was recently discovered to interact with the Ysh1 endonuclease of
the pre-mRNA cleavage and polyadenylation (C/P) machinery, and Ipa1 mutation impairs …

A SUMO-dependent pathway controls elongating RNA Polymerase II upon UV-induced damage

I Heckmann, MJ Kern, B Pfander, S Jentsch - Scientific Reports, 2019 - nature.com
Abstract RNA polymerase II (RNAPII) is the workhorse of eukaryotic transcription and
produces messenger RNAs and small nuclear RNAs. Stalling of RNAPII caused by …