Organization and regulation of gene transcription

P Cramer - Nature, 2019‏ - nature.com
The regulated transcription of genes determines cell identity and function. Recent structural
studies have elucidated mechanisms that govern the regulation of transcription by RNA …

[HTML][HTML] Loo** back to leap forward: transcription enters a new era

M Levine, C Cattoglio, R Tjian - Cell, 2014‏ - cell.com
Comparative genome analyses reveal that organismal complexity scales not with gene
number but with gene regulation. Recent efforts indicate that the human genome likely …

PLIP 2021: expanding the scope of the protein–ligand interaction profiler to DNA and RNA

MF Adasme, KL Linnemann, SN Bolz… - Nucleic acids …, 2021‏ - academic.oup.com
With the growth of protein structure data, the analysis of molecular interactions between
ligands and their target molecules is gaining importance. PLIP, the protein–ligand …

Structure of paused transcription complex Pol II–DSIF–NELF

SM Vos, L Farnung, H Urlaub, P Cramer - Nature, 2018‏ - nature.com
Metazoan gene regulation often involves the pausing of RNA polymerase II (Pol II) in the
promoter-proximal region. Paused Pol II is stabilized by the protein complexes DRB …

Structural basis of R-loop recognition by the S9. 6 monoclonal antibody

C Bou-Nader, A Bothra, DN Garboczi… - Nature …, 2022‏ - nature.com
R-loops are ubiquitous, dynamic nucleic-acid structures that play fundamental roles in DNA
replication and repair, chromatin and transcription regulation, as well as telomere …

Near-atomic resolution visualization of human transcription promoter opening

Y He, C Yan, J Fang, C Inouye, R Tjian, I Ivanov… - Nature, 2016‏ - nature.com
In eukaryotic transcription initiation, a large multi-subunit pre-initiation complex (PIC) that
assembles at the core promoter is required for the opening of the duplex DNA and …

The pearl jubilee of microcin J25: thirty years of research on an exceptional lasso peptide

F Baquero, K Beis, DJ Craik, Y Li, AJ Link… - Natural product …, 2024‏ - pubs.rsc.org
Covering: 1992 up to 2023 Since their discovery, lasso peptides went from peculiarities to
be recognized as a major family of ribosomally synthesized and post-translationally modified …

Structural basis for the initiation of eukaryotic transcription-coupled DNA repair

J Xu, I Lahiri, W Wang, A Wier, MA Cianfrocco, J Chong… - Nature, 2017‏ - nature.com
Eukaryotic transcription-coupled repair (TCR) is an important and well-conserved sub-
pathway of nucleotide excision repair that preferentially removes DNA lesions from the …

Structural biology of RNA polymerase II transcription: 20 years on

S Osman, P Cramer - Annual Review of Cell and …, 2020‏ - annualreviews.org
Gene transcription by RNA polymerase II (Pol II) is the first step in the expression of the
eukaryotic genome and a focal point for cellular regulation during development …

Inhibition of transcription by platinum antitumor compounds

RC Todd, SJ Lippard - Metallomics, 2009‏ - academic.oup.com
Cisplatin, carboplatin, and oxaliplatin are three FDA-approved members of the platinum
anticancer drug family. These compounds induce apoptosis in tumor cells by binding to …