Transcription elongation rate affects nascent histone pre-mRNA folding and 3’ end processing
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ABSTRACT: We report that slow transcription by mutant RNA pol II caused accumulation of polyadenylated histone mRNAs that extend past the stem loop processing site. UV irradiation, which decelerates pol II elongation, also induced long poly(A)+ histone transcripts. Inhibition of 3’ processing by slow pol II correlates with failure to recruit SLBP to histone genes. Chemical probing of nascent RNA structure showed that the stem loop fails to fold in transcripts made by slow pol II, thereby explaining the absence of SLBP and failure to process 3’ ends. These results show that regulation of transcription speed can modulate pre-mRNA processing by changing nascent RNA structure, and suggest a mechanism by which alternative processing could be controlled
ORGANISM(S): Homo sapiens
PROVIDER: GSE109652 | GEO | 2018/02/23
REPOSITORIES: GEO
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