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 …

Alternative polyadenylation of mRNA precursors

B Tian, JL Manley - Nature reviews Molecular cell biology, 2017 - nature.com
Alternative polyadenylation (APA) is an RNA-processing mechanism that generates distinct
3′ termini on mRNAs and other RNA polymerase II transcripts. It is widespread across all …

A joint NCBI and EMBL-EBI transcript set for clinical genomics and research

J Morales, S Pujar, JE Loveland, A Astashyn, R Bennett… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Comprehensive genome annotation is essential to understand the impact of clinically
relevant variants. However, the absence of a standard for clinical reporting and browser …

Is H3K4me3 instructive for transcription activation?

FS Howe, H Fischl, SC Murray, J Mellor - Bioessays, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Tri‐methylation of lysine 4 on histone H3 (H3K4me3) is a near‐universal chromatin
modification at the transcription start site of active genes in eukaryotes from yeast to man …

CDK12 regulates DNA repair genes by suppressing intronic polyadenylation

SJ Dubbury, PL Boutz, PA Sharp - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
Mutations that attenuate homologous recombination (HR)-mediated repair promote
tumorigenesis and sensitize cells to chemotherapeutics that cause replication fork collapse …

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 …

Context-specific regulation and function of mRNA alternative polyadenylation

S Mitschka, C Mayr - Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology, 2022 - nature.com
Alternative cleavage and polyadenylation (APA) is a widespread mechanism to generate
mRNA isoforms with alternative 3′ untranslated regions (UTRs). The expression of …

The Paf1 complex: a keystone of nuclear regulation operating at the interface of transcription and chromatin

AM Francette, SA Tripplehorn, KM Arndt - Journal of molecular biology, 2021 - Elsevier
The regulation of transcription by RNA polymerase II is closely intertwined with the
regulation of chromatin structure. A host of proteins required for the disassembly …

Transcriptional control by premature termination: a forgotten mechanism

K Kamieniarz-Gdula, NJ Proudfoot - Trends in Genetics, 2019 - cell.com
The concept of early termination as an important means of transcriptional control has long
been established. Even so, its role in metazoan gene expression is underappreciated …

Cleavage and polyadenylation: Ending the message expands gene regulation

J Neve, R Patel, Z Wang, A Louey, AM Furger - RNA biology, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Cleavage and polyadenylation (pA) is a fundamental step that is required for the maturation
of primary protein encoding transcripts into functional mRNAs that can be exported from the …