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Live imaging of nascent RNA dynamics reveals distinct types of transcriptional pulse regulation.
Muramoto, Tetsuya; Cannon, Danielle; Gierlinski, Marek; Corrigan, Adam; Barton, Geoffrey J; Chubb, Jonathan R.
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  • Muramoto T; Division of Cell and Developmental Biology, College of Life Sciences, University of Dundee, Dundee DD1 5EH, United Kingdom.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A ; 109(19): 7350-5, 2012 May 08.
Article em En | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-22529358
Transcription of genes can be discontinuous, occurring in pulses or bursts. It is not clear how properties of transcriptional pulses vary between different genes. We compared the pulsing of five housekeeping and five developmentally induced genes by direct imaging of single gene transcriptional events in individual living Dictyostelium cells. Each gene displayed its own transcriptional signature, differing in probability of firing and pulse duration, frequency, and intensity. In contrast to the prevailing view from both prokaryotes and eukaryotes that transcription displays binary behavior, strongly expressed housekeeping genes altered the magnitude of their transcriptional pulses during development. These nonbinary "tunable" responses may be better suited than stochastic switch behavior for housekeeping functions. Analysis of RNA synthesis kinetics using fluorescence recovery after photobleaching implied modulation of housekeeping-gene pulse strength occurs at the level of transcription initiation rather than elongation. In addition, disparities between single cell and population measures of transcript production suggested differences in RNA stability between gene classes. Analysis of stability using RNAseq revealed no major global differences in stability between developmental and housekeeping transcripts, although strongly induced RNAs showed unusually rapid decay, indicating tight regulation of expression.
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Texto completo: 1 Coleções: 01-internacional Base de dados: MEDLINE Assunto principal: Transcrição Gênica / RNA de Protozoário / Regulação da Expressão Gênica no Desenvolvimento / Dictyostelium Idioma: En Ano de publicação: 2012 Tipo de documento: Article

Texto completo: 1 Coleções: 01-internacional Base de dados: MEDLINE Assunto principal: Transcrição Gênica / RNA de Protozoário / Regulação da Expressão Gênica no Desenvolvimento / Dictyostelium Idioma: En Ano de publicação: 2012 Tipo de documento: Article