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JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY
Volume 287, Issue 53, Pages 44017-44026Publisher
AMER SOC BIOCHEMISTRY MOLECULAR BIOLOGY INC
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M112.430140
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- Mann and Cramer laboratories
- Center for Integrated Protein Science Munich
- LMUexcellent
- European Research Council
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft [SFB646, TR5, FOR1068]
- Nanosystems Initiative Munich
- Jung-Stiftung
- Vallee Foundation
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The multiprotein complex Mediator is a coactivator of RNA polymerase (Pol) II transcription that is required for the regulated expression of protein-coding genes. Mediator serves as an end point of signaling pathways and regulates Pol II transcription, but the mechanisms it uses are not well understood. Here, we used mass spectrometry and dynamic transcriptome analysis to investigate a functional role of Mediator phosphorylation in gene expression. Affinity purification and mass spectrometry revealed that Mediator from the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae is phosphorylated at multiple sites of 17 of its 25 subunits. Mediator phosphorylation levels change upon an external stimulus set by exposure of cells to high salt concentrations. Phosphorylated sites in the Mediator tail subunit Med15 are required for suppression of stress-induced changes in gene expression under non-stress conditions. Thus dynamic and differential Mediator phosphorylation contributes to gene regulation in eukaryotic cells.
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