A review on kinases phosphorylating the carboxyl-terminal domain of RNA polymerase II—Biological functions and inhibitors

2020 ◽  
Vol 104 ◽  
pp. 104318
Author(s):  
Jianru Zhang ◽  
Xiaoyun Zhang ◽  
Huidan Huang ◽  
Yimei Ding
2000 ◽  
Vol 275 (27) ◽  
pp. 20562-20571 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alex Chang ◽  
Sonny Cheang ◽  
Xavier Espanel ◽  
Marius Sudol

2020 ◽  
Vol 117 (33) ◽  
pp. 19888-19895
Author(s):  
Haolin Liu ◽  
Srinivas Ramachandran ◽  
Nova Fong ◽  
Tzu Phang ◽  
Schuyler Lee ◽  
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More than 30% of genes in higher eukaryotes are regulated by RNA polymerase II (Pol II) promoter proximal pausing. Pausing is released by the positive transcription elongation factor complex (P-TEFb). However, the exact mechanism by which this occurs and whether phosphorylation of the carboxyl-terminal domain of Pol II is involved in the process remains unknown. We previously reported that JMJD5 could generate tailless nucleosomes at position +1 from transcription start sites (TSS), thus perhaps enable progression of Pol II. Here we find that knockout of JMJD5 leads to accumulation of nucleosomes at position +1. Absence of JMJD5 also results in loss of or lowered transcription of a large number of genes. Interestingly, we found that phosphorylation, by CDK9, of Ser2 within two neighboring heptad repeats in the carboxyl-terminal domain of Pol II, together with phosphorylation of Ser5 within the second repeat, HR-Ser2p (1, 2)-Ser5p (2) for short, allows Pol II to bind JMJD5 via engagement of the N-terminal domain of JMJD5. We suggest that these events bring JMJD5 near the nucleosome at position +1, thus allowing JMJD5 to clip histones on this nucleosome, a phenomenon that may contribute to release of Pol II pausing.


1997 ◽  
Vol 272 (30) ◽  
pp. 18905-18909 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Baskaran ◽  
Gary G. Chiang ◽  
Tami Mysliwiec ◽  
Gary D. Kruh ◽  
Jean Y. J. Wang

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