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 …

Differential cofactor dependencies define distinct types of human enhancers

C Neumayr, V Haberle, L Serebreni, K Karner… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
All multicellular organisms rely on differential gene transcription regulated by genomic
enhancers, which function through cofactors that are recruited by transcription factors …

[HTML][HTML] Transcriptional regulation and its misregulation in disease

TI Lee, RA Young - Cell, 2013 - cell.com
The gene expression programs that establish and maintain specific cell states in humans
are controlled by thousands of transcription factors, cofactors, and chromatin regulators …

Promoter-proximal pausing of RNA polymerase II: emerging roles in metazoans

K Adelman, JT Lis - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2012 - nature.com
Recent years have witnessed a sea change in our understanding of transcription regulation:
whereas traditional models focused solely on the events that brought RNA polymerase II …

The COMPASS family of histone H3K4 methylases: mechanisms of regulation in development and disease pathogenesis

A Shilatifard - Annual review of biochemistry, 2012 - annualreviews.org
The Saccharomyces cerevisiae Set1/COMPASS was the first histone H3 lysine 4 (H3K4)
methylase identified over 10 years ago. Since then, it has been demonstrated that …

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 …

Super-enhancer-mediated RNA processing revealed by integrative microRNA network analysis

HI Suzuki, RA Young, PA Sharp - Cell, 2017 - cell.com
Super-enhancers are an emerging subclass of regulatory regions controlling cell identity
and disease genes. However, their biological function and impact on miRNA networks are …

RNA polymerase II elongation control

Q Zhou, T Li, DH Price - Annual review of biochemistry, 2012 - annualreviews.org
Regulation of the elongation phase of transcription by RNA polymerase II (Pol II) is utilized
extensively to generate the pattern of mRNAs needed to specify cell types and to respond to …

CDK9: a signaling hub for transcriptional control

CW Bacon, I D'Orso - Transcription, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT Cyclin-dependent kinase 9 (CDK9) is critical for RNA Polymerase II (Pol II)
transcription initiation, elongation, and termination in several key biological processes …