Project description:Here we report high-resolution analyses of transcribing RNAPIII in either a wild-type (WT) background or a Nrd1 auxin-inducible degron (AID) strain in which Nrd1 can be rapidly depleted upon addition of the auxin analogue Indole-3-acetic acid (IAA). Nrd1 functions together with Sen1 in transcription termination at RNAPII-dependent non-coding genes. Here we show that depletion of Nrd1 does not affect transcription termination at RNAPIII-dependent genes, indicating that Nrd1 is not an RNAPIII transcription termination factor.
Project description:Here we report high-resolution analyses of transcribing RNAPIII in either a wild-type (WT) background , a sen1-3 mutant or a Sen1 auxin-inducible degron (AID) strain in which Sen1 can be rapidly depleted upon addition of the auxin analogue Indole-3-acetic acid (IAA). Sen1 is a well-characterized transcription termination factor for RNAPII-dependent genes in budding yeast. Here we show that the presence of three point mutations in sen1-3 that abrogate the interaction of Sen1 with RNAPIII, as well as the depletion of Sen1 provoke global transcription termination defects at RNAPIII-dependent genes. These results indicate that Sen1 is also a transcription termination factor for RNAPIII transcription units.
Project description:Here we report high-resolution analyses of transcribing RNAPIII in either a wild-type (WT) background or a sen1-3 mutant in the G1 phase of the cell cycle. The mutations in Sen1-3 prevent the interaction of Sen1 with both RNAPIII and the replisome, raising the question whether the role of Sen1 in RNAPIII transcription termination could depend on the association of Sen1 with the replisome. Our data show that in the G1 phase of the cell cycle, where the replisome is not assembled, the sen1-3 mutant also exhibits transcription termination defects at RNAPIII-dependent genes, as in asynchronous cells. This result indicates that the role of Sen1 in termination at RNAPIII-dependent genes is independent on the association of Sen1 with the replisome.
Project description:Using CRAC, we compared the transcriptomic occupancy of Nrd1 in a Saccharomyces cerevisiae BY4741 parental strain (PIC2-GFP) and two derived mutants lacking Nab3 RNA-binding sites in PIC2. The purpose of the experiment was two-fold: on the one hand, we aimed to verify that the mutations inserted in the Nab3 binding sequences of PIC2 affected the binding of Nrd1 to the PIC2 transcript; on the other hand, we wanted to check whether differential binding of Nab3 to PIC2 would affect how the protein bound other targets in the genome. Sequencing outputs were processed using the pyCRAC pipeline and peak calling was performed with DBPeaks, our newly developed package for identification and comparison of binding sites defined by RNA-binding footprinting techniques (e.g., CRAC, iCLIP, PAR-CLIP, etc.).
Project description:ChIP-chip was performed to identify the genomic binding locations for the termination factors Nrd1, and Rtt103, and for RNA polymerase (Pol) II phosphorylated at the tyrosine 1 and threonine 4 position of its C-terminal domain (CTD). In different phases of the transcription cycle, Pol II recruits different factors via its CTD, which consists of heptapeptide repeats with the sequence Tyr1-Ser2-Pro3-Thr4-Ser5-Pro6-Ser7. Here we show that the CTD of transcribing yeast Pol II is phosphorylated at Tyr1, and that this impairs recruitment of termination factors. Tyr1 phosphorylation levels rise downstream of the transcription start site (TSS), and decrease before the polyadenylation (pA) site. Tyr1-phosphorylated gene bodies are depleted of CTD-binding termination factors Nrd1, Pcf11, and Rtt103. Tyr1 phosphorylation blocks CTD binding by these termination factors, but stimulates binding of elongation factor Spt6. These results show that CTD modifications can not only stimulate but also block factor recruitment, and lead to an extended CTD code for transcription cycle coordination.