Nature Communications (Jun 2017)

Architecture of the RNA polymerase II-Paf1C-TFIIS transcription elongation complex

  • Youwei Xu,
  • Carrie Bernecky,
  • Chung-Tien Lee,
  • Kerstin C. Maier,
  • Björn Schwalb,
  • Dimitry Tegunov,
  • Jürgen M. Plitzko,
  • Henning Urlaub,
  • Patrick Cramer

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms15741
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

Read online

The Paf1 complex (Paf1C) is an elongation factor assembly that forms the interface between transcribing Pol II and chromatin factors. Here the authors describe the architecture of Paf1C and its interface with Pol II, and show that Paf1C is globally required for normal mRNA transcription in yeast.