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 …

Enhancer RNAs are an important regulatory layer of the epigenome

V Sartorelli, SM Lauberth - Nature structural & molecular biology, 2020 - nature.com
Noncoding RNAs (ncRNAs) direct a remarkable number of diverse functions in development
and disease through their regulation of transcription, RNA processing and translation …

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 …

Born to run: control of transcription elongation by RNA polymerase II

FX Chen, ER Smith, A Shilatifard - Nature reviews Molecular cell …, 2018 - nature.com
The dynamic regulation of transcription elongation by RNA polymerase II (Pol II) is an
integral part of the implementation of gene expression programmes during development. In …

Getting up to speed with transcription elongation by RNA polymerase II

I Jonkers, JT Lis - Nature reviews Molecular cell biology, 2015 - nature.com
Recent advances in sequencing techniques that measure nascent transcripts and that
reveal the positioning of RNA polymerase II (Pol II) have shown that the pausing of Pol II in …

Base-pair-resolution genome-wide mapping of active RNA polymerases using precision nuclear run-on (PRO-seq)

DB Mahat, H Kwak, GT Booth, IH Jonkers, CG Danko… - Nature protocols, 2016 - nature.com
We provide a protocol for precision nuclear run-on sequencing (PRO-seq) and its variant,
PRO-cap, which map the location of active RNA polymerases (PRO-seq) or transcription …

Transcriptional enhancers: from properties to genome-wide predictions

D Shlyueva, G Stampfel, A Stark - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2014 - nature.com
Cellular development, morphology and function are governed by precise patterns of gene
expression. These are established by the coordinated action of genomic regulatory …

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 …

Widespread transcriptional pausing and elongation control at enhancers

T Henriques, BS Scruggs, MO Inouye… - Genes & …, 2018 - genesdev.cshlp.org
Regulation by gene-distal enhancers is critical for cell type-specific and condition-specific
patterns of gene expression. Thus, to understand the basis of gene activity in a given cell …

Genome-wide quantitative enhancer activity maps identified by STARR-seq

CD Arnold, D Gerlach, C Stelzer, ŁM Boryń, M Rath… - Science, 2013 - science.org
Genomic enhancers are important regulators of gene expression, but their identification is a
challenge, and methods depend on indirect measures of activity. We developed a method …