Journal: Molecular cell
Article Title: PAF1C-mediated activation of CDK12/13 kinase activity is critical for CTD phosphorylation and transcript elongation.
doi: 10.1016/j.molcel.2025.04.012
Figure Lengend Snippet: Figure 6. CDC73-mediated activation of CDK12/13 is essential for balanced gene expression (A) Volcano plot of significance and difference of spike-in and library normalized gene expression across cell lines indicated relative to siControl sample. Significantly upregulated (log2FC > 1 and adjusted p value < 0.05) and downregulated (log2FC < −1 and adjusted p value < 0.05) genes indicated in red and blue, respectively. The number of differentially expressed events are similarly indicated. Log2FC, log2 fold change. (B) Boxplot of log2FC of library and spike-in normalized nascent RNA read counts relative to the siControl condition, across gene intervals divided according to length. Long: > ∼100 kb, mid2: ∼30–100 kb, mid: ∼10–30 kb, short: < ∼1–10 kb. ****p < 0.0001, *p < 0.1, and ns: not significant as determined using an unpaired t test. (C) Metagene analysis of non-overlapping coding genes between 1 and 10 kb (n = 2,442) using library- and spike-in normalized nascent RNA read counts obtained from transient transcriptome chem sequencing (TTchem-seq). Line indicates mean signal of experiment performed in technical triplicate. Shaded area indicates standard error. Si73, siRNA targeting CDC73; CPM, counts per million; TSS, transcription start site; TES, transcription end site; kb, kilobases. (D) Representative images of nascent RNA read counts across GADD45B and HSPA1A, with the direction of transcription indicated by arrow. (E) Western blot of whole cell extracts of Flp-In T-Rex HEK293 cell lines with or without knockdown of CDC73 and induction of recombinant FLAG-CDC73 siRNA resistant WT and KIM mutant forms. ATR and FANCD2 blotted to show the loss of protein expression in the siCDC73 and the KIM mutants.
Article Snippet: The membranes were incubated with antibodies against Ser2 (3E8), Ser5 (3E10) (1:1000 dilution, gift from D. Eick), Ser2 + Ser5 di-phosphorylated CTD (D1G3K, Cell Signaling), RPB1 N-terminal domain (D8L4Y, Cell Signaling), CDK9 (C12F7, Cell Signaling), Cyclin K (A301-939A, Bethyl), Lamin A (ab26300, Abcam), FLAG (D6W5B, Cell Signaling), GST (Abcam, ab19256), CDK12 (A301-679A, CrkRS, Bethyl), CTR9 (A301-395A, Bethyl), PAF1 (A300-172A, Bethyl), RTF1 (Bethyl, A300-179A), alpha Tubulin (ab52866, Abcam), ATR (sc-515173, Santa Cruz), FANCD2 (FI17, sc-20022, Santa Cruz) and CDC73 (A300-170A, Parafibromin, Bethyl) (1:1,000) overnight at 4◦C.
Techniques: Activation Assay, Gene Expression, Sequencing, Western Blot, Knockdown, Recombinant, Mutagenesis, Expressing