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SUBMITTER: Lu H
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4490784 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Lu Huasong H Xue Yuhua Y Yu Guoying K GK Arias Carolina C Lin Julie J Fong Susan S Faure Michel M Weisburd Ben B Ji Xiaodan X Mercier Alexandre A Sutton James J Luo Kunxin K Gao Zhenhai Z Zhou Qiang Q
eLife 20150617
CDK9 is the kinase subunit of positive transcription elongation factor b (P-TEFb) that enables RNA polymerase (Pol) II's transition from promoter-proximal pausing to productive elongation. Although considerable interest exists in CDK9 as a therapeutic target, little progress has been made due to lack of highly selective inhibitors. Here, we describe the development of i-CDK9 as such an inhibitor that potently suppresses CDK9 phosphorylation of substrates and causes genome-wide Pol II pausing. Wh ...[more]