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MOLECULAR CELL
Volume 40, Issue 4, Pages 582-593Publisher
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2010.11.005
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- European Commission [LSHG-CT-2005-518280, LSGH-CT-2005-518238]
- Welcome Trust [087551]
- Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
- Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council [BB/D019621/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- BBSRC [BB/D019621/1] Funding Source: UKRI
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In eukaryotic cells, there is evidence for functional coupling between transcription and processing of pre-mRNAs. To better understand this coupling, we performed a high-resolution kinetic analysis of transcription and splicing in budding yeast. This revealed that shortly after induction of transcription, RNA polymerase accumulates transiently around the 3' end of the intron on two reporter genes. This apparent transcriptional pause coincides with splicing factor recruitment and with the first detection of spliced mRNA and is repeated periodically thereafter. Pausing requires productive splicing, as it is lost upon mutation of the intron and restored by suppressing the splicing defect. The carboxy-terminal domain of the paused polymerase large subunit is hyperphosphorylated on serine 5, and phosphorylation of serine 2 is first detected here. Phosphorylated polymerase also accumulates around the 3' splice sites of constitutively expressed, endogenous yeast genes. We propose that transcriptional pausing is imposed by a checkpoint associated with cotranscriptional splicing.
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