Nature Communications (May 2022)

Enhancers regulate 3′ end processing activity to control expression of alternative 3′UTR isoforms

  • Buki Kwon,
  • Mervin M. Fansler,
  • Neil D. Patel,
  • Jihye Lee,
  • Weirui Ma,
  • Christine Mayr

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-30525-y
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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Transcriptional enhancers are known to regulate transcript production. Here, the authors show that transcription factors that bind to enhancers also regulate polyadenylation site cleavage activity, thus changing expression of alternative 3’ UTRs.