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ArticleNature communications2024

Variation of C-terminal domain governs RNA polymerase II genomic locations and alternative splicing in eukaryotic transcription.

Qian Zhang, Wantae Kim, Svetlana B Panina, Joshua E Mayfield, Bede Portz, Y Jessie Zhang

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Article in Nature communications, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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11 citing papers in PubMed.

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6 authors.

Qian Zhang *Department of Molecular Biosciences, University of Texas, Austin, TX, USA.
Wantae Kim *McKetta Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Texas, Austin, TX, USA.
Svetlana B PaninaDepartment of Molecular Biosciences, University of Texas, Austin, TX, USA.
Joshua E MayfieldDepartment of Pharmacology, Pathology, Chemistry, and Biochemistry, and Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA.
Bede PortzDewpoint Therapeutics, Boston, MA, USA.
Y Jessie ZhangDepartment of Molecular Biosciences, University of Texas, Austin, TX, USA. jzhang@cm.utexas.edu.ORCID 0000-0002-9360-5388

Funding

Gene-specific transcriptional silencing directed by dephosphorylation of RNAP IIR01GM104896 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN · PI ZHANG, YAN JESSIE · 2013 to 2022
$2.4M
Deciphering the phosphorylation pattern of RNA polymerase II for eukaryotic transcriptionR35GM148356 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN · PI Yan Jessie Zhang · 2023 to 2026
$2.3M
Interpretation of the phosphorylation code of RNA polymerase II during eukaryotic transcriptionR01GM125882 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN · PI BRODBELT, JENNIFER S., ZHANG, YAN JESSIE · 2018 to 2021
$1.4M
NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM104896NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM125882NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM148356U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | National Institutes of Health (NIH) R01GM104896U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | National Institutes of Health (NIH) R01GM125882U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | National Institutes of Health (NIH) R35GM148356
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The C-terminal domain of RPB1 (CTD) orchestrates transcription by recruiting regulators to RNA Pol II upon phosphorylation. With CTD driving condensate formation on gene loci, the molecular mechanism behind how CTD-mediated recruitment of transcriptional regulators influences condensates formation remains unclear. Our study unveils that phosphorylation reversibly dissolves phase separation induced by the unphosphorylated CTD. Phosphorylated CTD, upon specific association with transcription regulators, forms distinct condensates from unphosphorylated CTD. Functional studies demonstrate CTD variants with diverse condensation properties exhibit differences in promoter binding and mRNA co-processing in cells. Notably, varying CTD lengths influence the assembly of RNA processing machinery and alternative splicing outcomes, which in turn affects cellular growth, linking the evolution of CTD variation/length with the complexity of splicing from yeast to human. These findings provide compelling evidence for a model wherein post-translational modification enables the transition of functionally specialized condensates, highlighting a co-evolution link between CTD condensation and splicing.

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Alternative SplicingRNA Polymerase IISaccharomyces cerevisiaeTranscription, GeneticHumansPhosphorylationPromoter Regions, GeneticProtein DomainsProtein Processing, Post-TranslationalRNA, MessengerSaccharomyces cerevisiae ProteinsRNA, MessengerRNA Polymerase IISaccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins

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PMID39266551
PMCPMC11393077

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