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JOURNAL OF CELL BIOLOGY
Volume 221, Issue 2, Pages -Publisher
ROCKEFELLER UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1083/jcb.202104134
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- Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology/Japan Society for the Promotion of Science KAKENHI [JP20K15755, JP17KK0143, JP20K06484, JP17K17719, JP20H04846, JP20H00456, JP21H00232, JP19H03192, JP17H01417, JP21H04764, JP18H05527]
- Japan Science and Technology Agency CREST [JPMJCR20S6, JPMJCR16G1]
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A genetically encoded modification-specific intracellular antibody probe was developed to detect RNAP2 Ser2 phosphorylation in living cells, revealing its specific role in transcription complexes and providing insights into genome and cell function.
In eukaryotic nuclei, most genes are transcribed by RNA polymerase II (RNAP2), whose regulation is a key to understanding the genome and cell function. RNAP2 has a long heptapeptide repeat (Tyr1-Ser2-Pro3-Thr4-Ser5-Pro6-Ser7), and Ser2 is phosphorylated on an elongation form. To detect RNAP2 Ser2 phosphorylation (RNAP2 Ser2ph) in living cells, we developed a genetically encoded modification-specific intracellular antibody (mintbody) probe. The RNAP2 Ser2ph-mintbody exhibited numerous foci, possibly representing transcription factories, and foci were diminished during mitosis and in a Ser2 kinase inhibitor. An in vitro binding assay using phosphopeptides confirmed the mintbody's specificity. RNAP2 Ser2ph-mintbody foci were colocalized with proteins associated with elongating RNAP2 compared with factors involved in the initiation. These results support the view that mintbody localization represents the sites of RNAP2 Ser2ph in living cells. RNAP2 Ser2ph-mintbody foci showed constrained diffusional motion like chromatin, but they were more mobile than DNA replication domains and p300-enriched foci, suggesting that the elongating RNAP2 complexes are separated from more confined chromatin domains.
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