Nature Communications (May 2022)

The 3′ Pol II pausing at replication-dependent histone genes is regulated by Mediator through Cajal bodies’ association with histone locus bodies

  • Hidefumi Suzuki,
  • Ryota Abe,
  • Miho Shimada,
  • Tomonori Hirose,
  • Hiroko Hirose,
  • Keisuke Noguchi,
  • Yoko Ike,
  • Nanami Yasui,
  • Kazuki Furugori,
  • Yuki Yamaguchi,
  • Atsushi Toyoda,
  • Yutaka Suzuki,
  • Tatsuro Yamamoto,
  • Noriko Saitoh,
  • Shigeo Sato,
  • Chieri Tomomori-Sato,
  • Ronald C. Conaway,
  • Joan W. Conaway,
  • Hidehisa Takahashi

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-30632-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 24

Abstract

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Transcription termination is generally accompanied by the 3′-end processing of transcripts. Here the authors demonstrate a role for Mediator in transcript end site proximal pausing of replication-dependent histone genes.