Transcription is a multi-stage process that coordinates several steps within the transcription cycle including chromatin reorganization, RNA polymerase II recruitment, initiation, promoter clearance and elongation. Recent advances have identified the super elongation complex (SEC), containing the eleven nineteen lysine rich leukemia protein (ELL), as a key regulator of transcriptional elongation. We show here that ELL plays a diverse and kinetically distinct role prior to its assembly into the SEC by stabilizing Pol II recruitment/initiation and entry into the pause site. Loss of ELL destabilizes the PIC complexes and results in disruption of early elongation and promoter proximal chromatin structure prior to recruitment of AFF4 and other SEC components. These changes result in significantly reduced transcriptional activation of rapidly induced genes. Thus, ELL plays an early and essential role during rapid high amplitude gene expression that is required for both Pol II pause site entry and release.
ELL facilitates RNA polymerase II pause site entry and release.
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Hypoxia-induced HIF1α targets in melanocytes reveal a molecular profile associated with poor melanoma prognosis.
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View SamplesThese datasets describe a melanocyte specific, HIF1A-Dependent / Hypoxia-Responsive gene expression signature defined by the regulation of genes critical to metabolism, chromatin and transcriptional regulation, vascularization and cellular invasivness. These genes provide lineage specific targets for refinement of diagnostic markers associated with primary melanoma tumor metastatic potential, and also provides novel molecular targets for therapeutic strategies targeting metastatic disease progression.
Hypoxia-induced HIF1α targets in melanocytes reveal a molecular profile associated with poor melanoma prognosis.
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Genomic analysis reveals distinct mechanisms and functional classes of SOX10-regulated genes in melanocytes.
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View SamplesWe performed ChIP-Seq analysis of SOX10, histone H3 lysine 27 acetylation (H3K27ac) and H3K27 trimethylation (H3K27me3) in melanocytes to profile the genomic binding sites of SOX10 and the chromatin landscape. In parallel, we generated Sox10 haploinsufficient cell lines using gene knockout approaches and conducted microarray gene expression analysis to identify functional gene targets of SOX10 transcriptional regulation in melanocytes. We demonstrate that SOX10 predominantly engages open chromatin, binds to melanocyte enhancer elements and plays a central role in transcriptional activation and repression of functionally distinct classes of genes. Furthermore, we identified cis-regulatory sequence motifs of putative co-regulatory transcription factors that define SOX10-activated and SOX10-repressed target genes. Our results uncover novel mechanisms and roles of SOX10 in global transcriptional regulation of diverse regulatory pathways in the melanocyte lineage.
Genomic analysis reveals distinct mechanisms and functional classes of SOX10-regulated genes in melanocytes.
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