Nature Communications (Nov 2017)

NDP52 activates nuclear myosin VI to enhance RNA polymerase II transcription

  • Natalia Fili,
  • Yukti Hari-Gupta,
  • Ália dos Santos,
  • Alexander Cook,
  • Simon Poland,
  • Simon M. Ameer-Beg,
  • Maddy Parsons,
  • Christopher P. Toseland

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-02050-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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Myosin VI (MVI) is known to interact with RNA Polymerase II and to play non-cytoplasmic roles in cells. Here, the authors provide evidence that the transcription co-activator NDP52 regulates MVI binding to DNA and that MVI interacts with nuclear receptors to drive gene expression.