Publication Date:
2011-04-23
Description:
Cellular messenger RNA levels are achieved by the combinatorial complexity of factors controlling transcription, yet the small number of molecules involved in these pathways fluctuates stochastically. It has not yet been experimentally possible to observe the activity of single polymerases on an endogenous gene to elucidate how these events occur in vivo. Here, we describe a method of fluctuation analysis of fluorescently labeled RNA to measure dynamics of nascent RNA--including initiation, elongation, and termination--at an active yeast locus. We find no transcriptional memory between initiation events, and elongation speed can vary by threefold throughout the cell cycle. By measuring the abundance and intranuclear mobility of an upstream transcription factor, we observe that the gene firing rate is directly determined by trans-activating factor search times.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3152976/" 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/PMC3152976/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Larson, Daniel R -- Zenklusen, Daniel -- Wu, Bin -- Chao, Jeffrey A -- Singer, Robert H -- 57071/PHS HHS/ -- 86217/PHS HHS/ -- R01 GM057071/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- R01 GM057071-10/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- R01 GM057071-11/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- R01 GM057071-12/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- R01 GM086217/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- R01 GM086217-01/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- R01 GM086217-02/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- R01 GM086217-03/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- R01 GM086217-04/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- Howard Hughes Medical Institute/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2011 Apr 22;332(6028):475-8. doi: 10.1126/science.1202142.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Anatomy and Structural Biology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY 10461, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21512033" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Adenosine Triphosphatases/genetics
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Cell Cycle
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Cell Nucleus/metabolism
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DNA Polymerase I/genetics
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Facilitated Diffusion
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*Genes, Fungal
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Glutamate Synthase/genetics
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Green Fluorescent Proteins
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Kinetics
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Microscopy, Fluorescence
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Models, Genetic
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Promoter Regions, Genetic
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RNA Polymerase II/metabolism
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RNA Precursors/genetics/metabolism
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RNA, Fungal/biosynthesis/*genetics
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RNA, Messenger/biosynthesis/*genetics
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Saccharomyces cerevisiae/*genetics/metabolism
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Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins/genetics/metabolism
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Spectrometry, Fluorescence
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Transcription Factors/metabolism
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*Transcription, Genetic
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Transcriptional Activation
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
