Hedgehog/GLI signaling pathway: transduction, regulation, and implications for disease

AN Sigafoos, BD Paradise, ME Fernandez-Zapico - Cancers, 2021 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary The Hedgehog/GLI (Hh/GLI) pathway plays a major role during
development and it is commonly dysregulated in many diseases, including cancer. This …

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 …

Multiple exposures to drought 'train' transcriptional responses in Arabidopsis

Y Ding, M Fromm, Z Avramova - Nature communications, 2012 - nature.com
Pre-exposure to stress may alter plants' subsequent responses by producing faster and/or
stronger reactions implying that plants exercise a form of'stress memory'. The mechanisms of …

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 …

The Cyclin K/Cdk12 complex maintains genomic stability via regulation of expression of DNA damage response genes

D Blazek, J Kohoutek, K Bartholomeeusen… - Genes & …, 2011 - genesdev.cshlp.org
Various cyclin-dependent kinase (Cdk) complexes have been implicated in the regulation of
transcription. In this study, we identified a 70-kDa Cyclin K (CycK) that binds Cdk12 and …

Drought stress memory at the plant cycle level: A review

C Jacques, C Salon, RL Barnard, V Vernoud… - Plants, 2021 - mdpi.com
Plants are sessile organisms whose survival depends on their strategy to cope with
dynamic, stressful conditions. It is urgent to improve the ability of crops to adapt to recurrent …

ZMYND11 links histone H3. 3K36me3 to transcription elongation and tumour suppression

H Wen, Y Li, Y Xi, S Jiang, S Stratton, D Peng… - Nature, 2014 - nature.com
Recognition of modified histones by 'reader'proteins plays a critical role in the regulation of
chromatin. H3K36 trimethylation (H3K36me3) is deposited onto the nucleosomes in the …

Inhibitors of bromodomain and extra‐terminal proteins for treating multiple human diseases

E Kulikowski, BD Rakai… - Medicinal research …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Clinical development of bromodomain and extra‐terminal (BET) protein inhibitors differs
from the traditional course of drug development. These drugs are simultaneously being …

Pol II waiting in the starting gates: Regulating the transition from transcription initiation into productive elongation

S Nechaev, K Adelman - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA)-Gene …, 2011 - Elsevier
Proper regulation of gene expression is essential for the differentiation, development and
survival of all cells and organisms. Recent work demonstrates that transcription of many …

Dynamic transcriptional events in embryonic stem cells mediated by the super elongation complex (SEC)

C Lin, AS Garrett, B De Kumar, ER Smith… - Genes & …, 2011 - genesdev.cshlp.org
Transcriptional regulation of developmentally controlled genes is at the heart of
differentiation and organogenesis. In this study, we performed global genomic analyses in …