Nascent RNA transcripts facilitate the formation of G-quadruplexes.

ABSTRACT: Recent discovery of the RNA/DNA hybrid G-quadruplexes (HQs) and their potential wide-spread occurrence in human genome during transcription have suggested a new and generic transcriptional control mechanism. The G-rich sequence in which HQ may form can coincide with that for DNA G-quadruplexes (GQs), which are well known to modulate transcriptions. Understanding the molecular interaction between HQ and GQ is, therefore, of pivotal importance to dissect the new mechanism for transcriptional regulation. Using a T7 transcription model, herein we found that GQ and HQ form in a natural sequence, (GGGGA)4, downstream of many transcription start sites. Using a newly-developed single-molecular stalled-transcription assay, we revealed that RNA transcripts helped to populate quadruplexes at the expe

SUBMITTER: Shrestha P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4066803 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature