Abstract

Termination of RNA polymerase II (RNAPII) transcription is a fundamental step of gene expression that is critical for determining the borders between genes. In budding yeast, termination at protein-coding genes is initiated by the cleavage/polyadenylation machinery, whereas termination of most noncoding RNA (ncRNA) genes occurs via the Nrd1–Nab3–Sen1 (NNS) pathway. Here, we find that NNS-like transcription termination is not conserved in fission yeast. Rather, genome-wide analyses show global recruitment of mRNA 3′ end processing factors at the end of ncRNA genes, including snoRNAs and snRNAs, and that this recruitment coincides with high levels of Ser2 and Tyr1 phosphorylation on the RNAPII C-terminal domain. We also find that termination of mRNA and ncRNA transcription requires the conserved Ysh1/CPSF-73 and Dhp1/XRN2 nucleases, supporting widespread cleavage-dependent transcription termination in fission yeast. Our findings thus reveal that a common mode of transcription termination can produce functionally and structurally distinct types of polyadenylated and non-polyadenylated RNAs.

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Title
Common mechanism of transcription termination at coding and noncoding RNA genes in fission yeast
Author
Larochelle, Marc 1 ; Marc-Antoine, Robert 2 ; Jean-Nicolas Hébert 1 ; Liu, Xiaochuan 3 ; Matteau, Dominick 2 ; Rodrigue, Sébastien 2 ; Tian, Bin 3 ; Pierre-Étienne, Jacques 4 ; Bachand, François 5 

 Département de Biochimie, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC, Canada 
 Départment de Biologie, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC, Canada 
 Department of Microbiology, Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School and Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey, Newark, NJ, USA 
 Départment de Biologie, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC, Canada; Centre de Recherche du CHUS, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC, Canada 
 Département de Biochimie, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC, Canada; Centre de Recherche du CHUS, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC, Canada 
Pages
1-15
Publication year
2018
Publication date
Oct 2018
Publisher
Nature Publishing Group
e-ISSN
20411723
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
2123042920
Copyright
© 2018. This work is published under http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (the “License”). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.