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ArticleMolecular cell2024

Evidence of RNA polymerase III recruitment and transcription at protein-coding gene promoters.

Rajendra K C, Ruiying Cheng, Sihang Zhou, Simon Lizarazo, Duncan J Smith, Kevin Van Bortle

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Article in Molecular cell, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

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6 authors.

Rajendra K CCenter for Biophysics and Quantitative Biology, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA.
Ruiying ChengDepartment of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA.
Sihang ZhouDepartment of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA.
Simon LizarazoDepartment of Molecular and Integrative Physiology, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA.
Duncan J SmithCenter for Genomics and Systems Biology, Department of Biology, New York University, New York, NY 10003, USA.
Kevin Van BortleDepartment of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA; Cancer Center at Illinois, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA. Electronic address: kvbortle@illinois.edu.

Funding

Mapping transient interactions with and on genomic DNAR35GM134918 · NIGMS · NEW YORK UNIVERSITY · PI Duncan J Smith · 2020 to 2026
$4.2M
The development and application of tools to characterize the level and function of RNA polymerase III transcription dynamics during cellular differentiationR00HG010362 · NHGRI · UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN · PI VAN BORTLE, KEVIN · 2022 to 2024
$747k
NHGRI NIH HHS R00 HG010362NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM134918
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The transcriptional interplay of human RNA polymerase I (RNA Pol I), RNA Pol II, and RNA Pol III remains largely uncharacterized due to limited integrative genomic analyses for all three enzymes. To address this gap, we applied a uniform framework to quantify global RNA Pol I, RNA Pol II, and RNA Pol III occupancies and identify both canonical and noncanonical patterns of gene localization. Most notably, our survey captures unexpected RNA Pol III recruitment at promoters of specific protein-coding genes. We show that such RNA Pol III-occupied promoters are enriched for small nascent RNAs terminating in a run of 4 Ts-a hallmark of RNA Pol III termination indicative of constrained RNA Pol III transcription. Taken further, RNA Pol III disruption generally reduces the expression of RNA Pol III-occupied protein-coding genes, suggesting RNA Pol III recruitment and transcription enhance RNA Pol II activity. These findings resemble analogous patterns of RNA Pol II activity at RNA Pol III-transcribed genes, altogether uncovering a reciprocal form of crosstalk between RNA Pol II and RNA Pol III.

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Promoter Regions, GeneticRNA Polymerase IIRNA Polymerase IIITranscription, GeneticGene Expression RegulationHeLa CellsHumansRNA Polymerase IRNA Polymerase IRNA Polymerase IIRNA Polymerase IIIgene regulationLa chaperonenc111nc143nc96RNA Pol IIRNA Pol IIIRPPH1transcriptometRNA

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PMID39393362
PMCPMC11560567

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