Nuclear compartmentalization as a mechanism of quantitative control of gene expression

P Bhat, D Honson, M Guttman - Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology, 2021 - nature.com
Gene regulation requires the dynamic coordination of hundreds of regulatory factors at
precise genomic and RNA targets. Although many regulatory factors have specific affinity for …

Enhancer RNAs are an important regulatory layer of the epigenome

V Sartorelli, SM Lauberth - Nature structural & molecular biology, 2020 - nature.com
Noncoding RNAs (ncRNAs) direct a remarkable number of diverse functions in development
and disease through their regulation of transcription, RNA processing and translation …

Pol II phosphorylation regulates a switch between transcriptional and splicing condensates

YE Guo, JC Manteiga, JE Henninger, BR Sabari… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
The synthesis of pre-mRNA by RNA polymerase II (Pol II) involves the formation of a
transcription initiation complex, and a transition to an elongation complex,,–. The large …

RNA polymerase II clustering through carboxy-terminal domain phase separation

M Boehning, C Dugast-Darzacq, M Rankovic… - Nature structural & …, 2018 - nature.com
The carboxy-terminal domain (CTD) of RNA polymerase (Pol) II is an intrinsically disordered
low-complexity region that is critical for pre-mRNA transcription and processing. The CTD …

Transcription regulation by the Mediator complex

J Soutourina - Nature reviews Molecular cell biology, 2018 - nature.com
Alterations in the regulation of gene expression are frequently associated with
developmental diseases or cancer. Transcription activation is a key phenomenon in the …

Driving forces behind phase separation of the carboxy-terminal domain of RNA polymerase II

D Flores-Solis, IP Lushpinskaia, AA Polyansky… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Eukaryotic gene regulation and pre-mRNA transcription depend on the carboxy-terminal
domain (CTD) of RNA polymerase (Pol) II. Due to its highly repetitive, intrinsically disordered …

Intrinsically disordered proteins in cellular signalling and regulation

PE Wright, HJ Dyson - Nature reviews Molecular cell biology, 2015 - nature.com
Intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) are important components of the cellular signalling
machinery, allowing the same polypeptide to undertake different interactions with different …

Regulation of co-transcriptional pre-mRNA splicing by m6A through the low-complexity protein hnRNPG

KI Zhou, H Shi, R Lyu, AC Wylder, Ż Matuszek, JN Pan… - Molecular cell, 2019 - cell.com
Summary N 6-methyladenosine (m 6 A) modification occurs co-transcriptionally and impacts
pre-mRNA processing; however, the mechanism of co-transcriptional m 6 A-dependent …

RNA splicing factors as oncoproteins and tumour suppressors

H Dvinge, E Kim, O Abdel-Wahab… - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2016 - nature.com
The recent genomic characterization of cancers has revealed recurrent somatic point
mutations and copy number changes affecting genes encoding RNA splicing factors. Initial …

The code and beyond: transcription regulation by the RNA polymerase II carboxy-terminal domain

KM Harlen, LS Churchman - Nature reviews Molecular cell biology, 2017 - nature.com
The carboxy-terminal domain (CTD) extends from the largest subunit of RNA polymerase II
(Pol II) as a long, repetitive and largely unstructured polypeptide chain. Throughout the …