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  • 1
    Publication Date: 2014-04-15
    Description: Most genomes, including yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae , are pervasively transcribed producing numerous non-coding RNAs, many of which are unstable and eliminated by nuclear or cytoplasmic surveillance pathways. We previously showed that accumulation of PHO84 antisense RNA (asRNA), in cells lacking the nuclear exosome component Rrp6, is paralleled by repression of sense transcription in a process dependent on the Hda1 histone deacetylase (HDAC) and the H3K4 histone methyl transferase Set1. Here we investigate this process genome-wide and measure the whole transcriptome of various histone modification mutants in a rrp6 strain using tiling arrays. We confirm widespread occurrence of potentially antisense-dependent gene regulation and identify three functionally distinct classes of genes that accumulate asRNAs in the absence of Rrp6. These classes differ in whether the genes are silenced by the asRNA and whether the silencing is HDACs and histone methyl transferase-dependent. Among the distinguishing features of asRNAs with regulatory potential, we identify weak early termination by Nrd1/Nab3/Sen1, extension of the asRNA into the open reading frame promoter and dependence of the silencing capacity on Set1 and the HDACs Hda1 and Rpd3 particularly at promoters undergoing extensive chromatin remodelling. Finally, depending on the efficiency of Nrd1/Nab3/Sen1 early termination, asRNA levels are modulated and their capability of silencing is changed.
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    Publication Date: 2012-09-29
    Description: Eukaryotic genomes are extensively transcribed, forming both messenger RNAs (mRNAs) and noncoding RNAs (ncRNAs). ncRNAs made by RNA polymerase II often initiate from bidirectional promoters (nucleosome-depleted chromatin) that synthesize mRNA and ncRNA in opposite directions. We demonstrate that, by adopting a gene-loop conformation, actively transcribed mRNA encoding genes restrict divergent transcription of ncRNAs. Because gene-loop formation depends on a protein factor (Ssu72) that coassociates with both the promoter and the terminator, the inactivation of Ssu72 leads to increased synthesis of promoter-associated divergent ncRNAs, referred to as Ssu72-restricted transcripts (SRTs). Similarly, inactivation of individual gene loops by gene mutation enhances SRT synthesis. We demonstrate that gene-loop conformation enforces transcriptional directionality on otherwise bidirectional promoters.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3563069/" target="_blank"〉〈img src="https://static.pubmed.gov/portal/portal3rc.fcgi/4089621/img/3977009" border="0"〉〈/a〉   〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3563069/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Tan-Wong, Sue Mei -- Zaugg, Judith B -- Camblong, Jurgi -- Xu, Zhenyu -- Zhang, David W -- Mischo, Hannah E -- Ansari, Aseem Z -- Luscombe, Nicholas M -- Steinmetz, Lars M -- Proudfoot, Nick J -- 091805/Wellcome Trust/United Kingdom -- Wellcome Trust/United Kingdom -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2012 Nov 2;338(6107):671-5. doi: 10.1126/science.1224350. Epub 2012 Sep 27.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3RE, UK.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23019609" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Exosome Multienzyme Ribonuclease Complex/metabolism ; *Genes, Fungal ; Genome, Fungal ; Mutation ; Nucleic Acid Conformation ; Phosphoprotein Phosphatases/metabolism ; Promoter Regions, Genetic ; RNA Polymerase II/metabolism ; RNA Stability ; RNA, Fungal/genetics/metabolism ; RNA, Messenger/*genetics/metabolism ; RNA, Untranslated/*genetics/metabolism ; Saccharomyces cerevisiae/*genetics/metabolism ; Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins/metabolism ; *Transcription, Genetic ; mRNA Cleavage and Polyadenylation Factors/metabolism
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    Publication Date: 2012-07-24
    Description: Through hyperacetylation of histone H4 lysine 16 (H4K16), the male-specific lethal (MSL) complex in Drosophila approximately doubles transcription from the single male X chromosome in order to match X-linked expression in females and expression from diploid autosomes. By obtaining accurate measurements of RNA polymerase II (Pol II) occupancies and short promoter-proximal RNA production, we detected a consistent, genome-scale increase in Pol II activity at the promoters of male X-linked genes. Moreover, we found that enhanced Pol II recruitment to male X-linked promoters is largely dependent on the MSL complex. These observations provide insights into how global modulation of chromatin structure by histone acetylation contributes to the precise control of Pol II function.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Conrad, Thomas -- Cavalli, Florence M G -- Vaquerizas, Juan M -- Luscombe, Nicholas M -- Akhtar, Asifa -- Cancer Research UK/United Kingdom -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2012 Aug 10;337(6095):742-6. doi: 10.1126/science.1221428. Epub 2012 Jul 19.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics, 79108 Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22821985" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Acetylation ; Animals ; Cell Line ; Chromatin Immunoprecipitation ; DNA Polymerase II/*metabolism ; *Dosage Compensation, Genetic ; Drosophila/*genetics/metabolism ; Drosophila Proteins/*metabolism ; Female ; Genes, Insect ; *Genes, X-Linked ; Histones/metabolism ; Male ; Multigene Family ; *Promoter Regions, Genetic ; Sex Characteristics ; Transcription, Genetic ; X Chromosome/*genetics
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  • 4
    Publication Date: 2015-03-25
    Description: The structure of messenger RNA is important for post-transcriptional regulation, mainly because it affects binding of trans-acting factors. However, little is known about the in vivo structure of full-length mRNAs. Here we present hiCLIP, a biochemical technique for transcriptome-wide identification of RNA secondary structures interacting with RNA-binding proteins (RBPs). Using this technique to investigate RNA structures bound by Staufen 1 (STAU1) in human cells, we uncover a dominance of intra-molecular RNA duplexes, a depletion of duplexes from coding regions of highly translated mRNAs, an unexpected prevalence of long-range duplexes in 3' untranslated regions (UTRs), and a decreased incidence of single nucleotide polymorphisms in duplex-forming regions. We also discover a duplex spanning 858 nucleotides in the 3' UTR of the X-box binding protein 1 (XBP1) mRNA that regulates its cytoplasmic splicing and stability. Our study reveals the fundamental role of mRNA secondary structures in gene expression and introduces hiCLIP as a widely applicable method for discovering new, especially long-range, RNA duplexes.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4376666/" target="_blank"〉〈img src="https://static.pubmed.gov/portal/portal3rc.fcgi/4089621/img/3977009" border="0"〉〈/a〉   〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4376666/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Sugimoto, Yoichiro -- Vigilante, Alessandra -- Darbo, Elodie -- Zirra, Alexandra -- Militti, Cristina -- D'Ambrogio, Andrea -- Luscombe, Nicholas M -- Ule, Jernej -- 103760/Wellcome Trust/United Kingdom -- 103760/Z/14/Z/Wellcome Trust/United Kingdom -- 206726/European Research Council/International -- 617837/European Research Council/International -- A16358/Cancer Research UK/United Kingdom -- MC_U105185858/Medical Research Council/United Kingdom -- U105185858/Medical Research Council/United Kingdom -- England -- Nature. 2015 Mar 26;519(7544):491-4. doi: 10.1038/nature14280. Epub 2015 Mar 18.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Francis Crick Avenue, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge CB2 0QH, UK. ; 1] Cancer Research UK London Research Institute, 44 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3LY, UK [2] UCL Genetics Institute, Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, UK. ; Cancer Research UK London Research Institute, 44 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3LY, UK. ; Department of Molecular Neuroscience, UCL Institute of Neurology, Queen Square, London WC1N 3BG, UK. ; 1] MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Francis Crick Avenue, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge CB2 0QH, UK [2] Department of Molecular Neuroscience, UCL Institute of Neurology, Queen Square, London WC1N 3BG, UK. ; 1] Cancer Research UK London Research Institute, 44 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3LY, UK [2] UCL Genetics Institute, Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, UK [3] Okinawa Institute of Science &Technology, 1919-1 Tancha, Onna-son, Kunigami-gun, Okinawa 904-0495, Japan.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25799984" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: 3' Untranslated Regions/genetics ; Base Sequence ; Cytoplasm/genetics/metabolism ; Cytoskeletal Proteins/*metabolism ; DNA-Binding Proteins/genetics ; Humans ; *Nucleic Acid Conformation ; Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide/genetics ; RNA Splicing ; RNA Stability ; RNA, Messenger/*chemistry/genetics/*metabolism ; RNA-Binding Proteins/*metabolism ; Transcription Factors/genetics
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    Publication Date: 2012-04-24
    Description: A central tenet in evolutionary theory is that mutations occur randomly with respect to their value to an organism; selection then governs whether they are fixed in a population. This principle has been challenged by long-standing theoretical models predicting that selection could modulate the rate of mutation itself. However, our understanding of how the mutation rate varies between different sites within a genome has been hindered by technical difficulties in measuring it. Here we present a study that overcomes previous limitations by combining phylogenetic and population genetic techniques. Upon comparing 34 Escherichia coli genomes, we observe that the neutral mutation rate varies by more than an order of magnitude across 2,659 genes, with mutational hot and cold spots spanning several kilobases. Importantly, the variation is not random: we detect a lower rate in highly expressed genes and in those undergoing stronger purifying selection. Our observations suggest that the mutation rate has been evolutionarily optimized to reduce the risk of deleterious mutations. Current knowledge of factors influencing the mutation rate-including transcription-coupled repair and context-dependent mutagenesis-do not explain these observations, indicating that additional mechanisms must be involved. The findings have important implications for our understanding of evolution and the control of mutations.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Martincorena, Inigo -- Seshasayee, Aswin S N -- Luscombe, Nicholas M -- England -- Nature. 2012 May 3;485(7396):95-8. doi: 10.1038/nature10995.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉EMBL-European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Cambridge CB10 1SD, UK. martinco@ebi.ac.uk〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22522932" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: *Biological Evolution ; Escherichia coli/genetics ; Genome, Bacterial/genetics ; *Models, Genetic ; Mutagenesis/*genetics ; Phylogeny ; Risk ; Selection, Genetic/genetics
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    Publication Date: 2013-04-20
    Description: Ferrari et al. and Straub and Becker wrongly claim that an error in the computational analysis calls into question the conclusions of Conrad et al. All the available evidence, including the reanalyzed genomic data, show that the conclusions and the key message of the study remain unchanged: RNA polymerase II recruitment to male X-linked promoters is an important regulatory step during dosage compensation.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Vaquerizas, Juan M -- Cavalli, Florence M G -- Conrad, Thomas -- Akhtar, Asifa -- Luscombe, Nicholas M -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2013 Apr 19;340(6130):273. doi: 10.1126/science.1232874.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine, Roentgenstrasse 20, 48149 Muenster, Germany.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23599465" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
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    Publication Date: 2002-02-26
    Print ISSN: 0027-8424
    Electronic ISSN: 1091-6490
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    Publication Date: 2015-12-02
    Description: The 3' untranslated regions (3' UTRs) of transcripts serve as important hubs for posttranscriptional gene expression regulation. Here, we find that the exonisation of intergenic Alu elements introduced new terminal exons and polyadenylation sites during human genome evolution. While Alu exonisation from introns has been described previously, we shed light on a novel mechanism to create alternative 3' UTRs, thereby opening opportunities for differential posttranscriptional regulation. On the mechanistic level, we show that intergenic Alu exonisation can compete both with alternative splicing and polyadenylation in the upstream gene. Notably, the Alu -derived isoforms are often expressed in a tissue-specific manner, and the Alu -derived 3' UTRs can alter mRNA stability. In summary, we demonstrate that intergenic elements can affect processing of preceding genes, and elucidate how intergenic Alu exonisation can contribute to tissue-specific posttranscriptional regulation by expanding the repertoire of 3' UTRs.
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    Publication Date: 2012-04-24
    Description: IHF and HU are two heterodimeric nucleoid-associated proteins (NAP) that belong to the same protein family but interact differently with the DNA. IHF is a sequence-specific DNA-binding protein that bends the DNA by over 160°. HU is the most conserved NAP, which binds non-specifically to duplex DNA with a particular preference for targeting nicked and bent DNA. Despite their importance, the in vivo interactions of the two proteins to the DNA remain to be described at a high resolution and on a genome-wide scale. Further, the effects of these proteins on gene expression on a global scale remain contentious. Finally, the contrast between the functions of the homo- and heterodimeric forms of proteins deserves the attention of further study. Here we present a genome-scale study of HU- and IHF binding to the Escherichia coli K12 chromosome using ChIP-seq. We also perform microarray analysis of gene expression in single- and double-deletion mutants of each protein to identify their regulons. The sequence-specific binding profile of IHF encompasses ~30% of all operons, though the expression of 〈10% of these is affected by its deletion suggesting combinatorial control or a molecular backup. The binding profile for HU is reflective of relatively non-specific binding to the chromosome, however, with a preference for A/T-rich DNA. The HU regulon comprises highly conserved genes including those that are essential and possibly supercoiling sensitive. Finally, by performing ChIP-seq experiments, where possible, of each subunit of IHF and HU in the absence of the other subunit, we define genome-wide maps of DNA binding of the proteins in their hetero- and homodimeric forms.
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