Transcriptional elongation requires DNA break-induced signalling

Heeyoun Bunch (), Brian P. Lawney, Yu-Fen Lin, Aroumougame Asaithamby, Ayesha Murshid, Yaoyu E. Wang, Benjamin P. C. Chen and Stuart K. Calderwood ()
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Heeyoun Bunch: Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School
Brian P. Lawney: Center for Cancer Computational Biology, Dana Farber Cancer Institute
Yu-Fen Lin: University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Aroumougame Asaithamby: University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Ayesha Murshid: Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School
Yaoyu E. Wang: Center for Cancer Computational Biology, Dana Farber Cancer Institute
Benjamin P. C. Chen: University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Stuart K. Calderwood: Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School

Nature Communications, 2015, vol. 6, issue 1, 1-12

Abstract: Abstract We have previously shown that RNA polymerase II (Pol II) pause release and transcriptional elongation involve phosphorylation of the factor TRIM28 by the DNA damage response (DDR) kinases ATM and DNA-PK. Here we report a significant role for DNA breaks and DDR signalling in the mechanisms of transcriptional elongation in stimulus-inducible genes in humans. Our data show the enrichment of TRIM28 and γH2AX on serum-induced genes and the important function of DNA-PK for Pol II pause release and transcriptional activation-coupled DDR signalling on these genes. γH2AX accumulation decreases when P-TEFb is inhibited, confirming that DDR signalling results from transcriptional elongation. In addition, transcriptional elongation-coupled DDR signalling involves topoisomerase II because inhibiting this enzyme interferes with Pol II pause release and γH2AX accumulation. Our findings propose that DDR signalling is required for effective Pol II pause release and transcriptional elongation through a novel mechanism involving TRIM28, DNA-PK and topoisomerase II.

Date: 2015
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