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Cyclin-dependent kinase control of the initiation-to-elongation switch of RNA polymerase II.


ABSTRACT: Promoter-proximal pausing by RNA polymerase II (Pol II) ensures gene-specific regulation and RNA quality control. Structural considerations suggested a requirement for initiation-factor eviction in elongation-factor engagement and pausing of transcription complexes. Here we show that selective inhibition of Cdk7--part of TFIIH--increases TFIIE retention, prevents DRB sensitivity-inducing factor (DSIF) recruitment and attenuates pausing in human cells. Pause release depends on Cdk9-cyclin T1 (P-TEFb); Cdk7 is also required for Cdk9-activating phosphorylation and Cdk9-dependent downstream events--Pol II C-terminal domain Ser2 phosphorylation and histone H2B ubiquitylation--in vivo. Cdk7 inhibition, moreover, impairs Pol II transcript 3'-end formation. Cdk7 thus acts through TFIIE and DSIF to establish, and through P-TEFb to relieve, barriers to elongation: incoherent feedforward that might create a window to recruit RNA-processing machinery. Therefore, cyclin-dependent kinases govern Pol II handoff from initiation to elongation factors and cotranscriptional RNA maturation.

SUBMITTER: Larochelle S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3746743 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Cyclin-dependent kinase control of the initiation-to-elongation switch of RNA polymerase II.

Larochelle Stéphane S   Amat Ramon R   Glover-Cutter Kira K   Sansó Miriam M   Zhang Chao C   Allen Jasmina J JJ   Shokat Kevan M KM   Bentley David L DL   Fisher Robert P RP  

Nature structural & molecular biology 20121014 11


Promoter-proximal pausing by RNA polymerase II (Pol II) ensures gene-specific regulation and RNA quality control. Structural considerations suggested a requirement for initiation-factor eviction in elongation-factor engagement and pausing of transcription complexes. Here we show that selective inhibition of Cdk7--part of TFIIH--increases TFIIE retention, prevents DRB sensitivity-inducing factor (DSIF) recruitment and attenuates pausing in human cells. Pause release depends on Cdk9-cyclin T1 (P-T  ...[more]

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