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Dynamic enhancer-gene body contacts during transcription elongation.

ABSTRACT: Enhancers govern transcription through multiple mechanisms, including the regulation of elongation by RNA polymerase II (RNAPII). We characterized the dynamics of looped enhancer contacts during synchronous transcription elongation. We found that many distal enhancers form stable contacts with their target promoters during the entire interval of elongation. Notably, we detected additional dynamic enhancer contacts throughout the gene bodies that track with elongating RNAPII and the leading edge of RNA synthesis. These results support a model in which the gene body changes its position relative to a stable enhancer-promoter complex, which has broad ramifications for enhancer function and architectural models of transcriptional elongation.

SUBMITTER: Lee K

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4604340 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Dynamic enhancer-gene body contacts during transcription elongation.

Lee Kiwon K Hsiung Chris C-S CC Huang Peng P Raj Arjun A Blobel Gerd A GA

Genes & development 20151001 19

Enhancers govern transcription through multiple mechanisms, including the regulation of elongation by RNA polymerase II (RNAPII). We characterized the dynamics of looped enhancer contacts during synchronous transcription elongation. We found that many distal enhancers form stable contacts with their target promoters during the entire interval of elongation. Notably, we detected additional dynamic enhancer contacts throughout the gene bodies that track with elongating RNAPII and the leading edge ...[more]

PMID: 26443845

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