Individual letters of the RNA polymerase II CTD code govern distinct gene expression programs in fission yeast

ABSTRACT: The primary structure and phosphorylation pattern of the tandem YSPTSPS repeats of the RNA polymerase II CTD comprise an informational code that coordinates transcription, chromatin modification, and RNA processing. To gauge the contributions of individual CTD coding M-bM-^@M-^\lettersM-bM-^@M-^] to gene expression, we analyzed the poly(A)+ transcriptomes of fission yeast mutants that lack each of the four inessential CTD phosphoacceptors: Tyr1, Ser2, Thr4, and Ser7. There was a hierarchy of CTD mutational effects with respect to the number of dysregulated protein-coding RNAs, with S2A (n=227) >> Y1F (n=71) > S7A (n=58) >> T4A (n=7). The majority of the protein-coding RNAs affected in Y1F cells were coordinately affected by S2A, suggesting that Tyr1-Ser2 constitutes a two-letter code M-bM-

ORGANISM(S): Schizosaccharomyces pombe

SUBMITTER: Danny Bitton 

PROVIDER: E-GEOD-52370 | biostudies-arrayexpress |

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress