The code and beyond: transcription regulation by the RNA polymerase II carboxy-terminal domain

KM Harlen, LS Churchman - Nature reviews Molecular cell biology, 2017 - nature.com
The carboxy-terminal domain (CTD) extends from the largest subunit of RNA polymerase II
(Pol II) as a long, repetitive and largely unstructured polypeptide chain. Throughout the …

The pol II CTD: new twists in the tail

J Zaborowska, S Egloff, S Murphy - Nature structural & molecular …, 2016 - nature.com
The C-terminal domain (CTD) of the large subunit of RNA polymerase (pol) II comprises
conserved heptad repeats, and post-translational modification of the CTD regulates …

Histone H3K27 acetylation precedes active transcription during zebrafish zygotic genome activation as revealed by live-cell analysis

Y Sato, L Hilbert, H Oda, Y Wan… - …, 2019 - journals.biologists.com
Histone post-translational modifications are key gene expression regulators, but their rapid
dynamics during development remain difficult to capture. We applied a Fab-based live …

The RNA polymerase II CTD: the increasing complexity of a low-complexity protein domain

C Jeronimo, P Collin, F Robert - Journal of molecular biology, 2016 - Elsevier
The largest subunit of RNA polymerase II contains a C-terminal domain (CTD) that plays key
roles in coordinating transcription with co-transcriptional events. The heptapeptide repeats …

R-loops enhance polycomb repression at a subset of developmental regulator genes

K Skourti-Stathaki, ET Triglia, M Warburton, P Voigt… - Molecular cell, 2019 - cell.com
R-loops are three-stranded nucleic acid structures that form during transcription, especially
over unmethylated CpG-rich promoters of active genes. In mouse embryonic stem cells …

WWP2 ubiquitylates RNA polymerase II for DNA-PK-dependent transcription arrest and repair at DNA breaks

P Caron, T Pankotai, WW Wiegant… - Genes & …, 2019 - genesdev.cshlp.org
DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs) at RNA polymerase II (RNAPII) transcribed genes lead to
inhibition of transcription. The DNA-dependent protein kinase (DNA-PK) complex plays a …

Lysine methylation regulators moonlighting outside the epigenome

EM Cornett, L Ferry, PA Defossez, SB Rothbart - Molecular cell, 2019 - cell.com
Landmark discoveries made nearly two decades ago identified known transcriptional
regulators as histone lysine methyltransferases. Since then, the field of lysine methylation …

Phosphorylation induces sequence-specific conformational switches in the RNA polymerase II C-terminal domain

EB Gibbs, F Lu, B Portz, MJ Fisher, BP Medellin… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
The carboxy-terminal domain (CTD) of the RNA polymerase II (Pol II) large subunit cycles
through phosphorylation states that correlate with progression through the transcription …

[HTML][HTML] Arginine citrullination at the C-terminal domain controls RNA polymerase II transcription

P Sharma, A Lioutas, N Fernandez-Fuentes, J Quilez… - Molecular cell, 2019 - cell.com
The post-translational modification of key residues at the C-terminal domain of RNA
polymerase II (RNAP2-CTD) coordinates transcription, splicing, and RNA processing by …

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication—crosstalk of post-translational modifications on the rna polymerase ii

MKV Ramani, W Yang, S Irani, Y Zhang - Journal of molecular biology, 2021 - Elsevier
The highly conserved C-terminal domain (CTD) of the largest subunit of RNA polymerase II
comprises a consensus heptad (Y 1 S 2 P 3 T 4 S 5 P 6 S 7) repeated multiple times …