Abstract

Background: Recently, we showed that PARP1 is involved in cotranscriptional splicing, possibly by bridging chromatin to RNA and recruiting splicing factors. It also can influence alternative splicing decisions through the regulation of RNAPII elongation. In this study, we investigated the effect of PARP1-mediated chromatin changes on RNAPII movement, during transcription and alternative splicing.

Results: We show that RNAPII pauses at PARP1–chromatin structures within the gene body. Knockdown of PARP1 abolishes this RNAPII pausing, suggesting that PARP1 may regulate RNAPII elongation. Additionally, PARP1 alters nucleosome deposition and histone post-translational modifications at specific exon–intron boundaries, thereby affecting RNAPII movement. Lastly, genome-wide analyses confirmed that PARP1 influences changes in RNAPII elongation by either reducing or increasing the rate of RNAPII elongation depending on the chromatin context.

Conclusions: These studies suggest a context-specific effect of PARP1–chromatin binding on RNA polymerase movement and provide a platform to delineate PARP1’s role in RNA biogenesis and processing.

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2-18-2019

Notes/Citation Information

Published in Epigenetics & Chromatin, v. 12, article no. 15, p. 1-18.

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Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

https://doi.org/10.1186/s13072-019-0261-1

Funding Information

This research was supported by NIH grants P20 GM103436 (ECR); 1RO1ES024478 and NSF MCB-1517986 (YNF-M).

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All data needed to evaluate the conclusions in the paper are present in the paper and/or the Supplementary Materials. Additional data related to this paper may be requested from the authors. Additionally, the raw sequencing data have been deposited in GSE118266.

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