Timing polymerase pausing with TV-PRO-seq: dissecting the interplay of pausing duration and location, and gene expression

Author:

Zhang Jie,Cavallaro Massimo,Hebenstreit Daniel

Abstract

AbstractTranscription of many genes in metazoans is subject to polymerase pausing, which is the transient stop of transcriptionally-engaged polymerases. This is known to mainly occur in promoter proximal regions but it is not well understood. In particular, a genome-wide measurement of pausing times at high resolution has been lacking. We present here the time-variant precision nuclear run-on and sequencing (TV-PRO-seq) assay, an extension of the standard PRO-seq that allows us to estimate genome-wide pausing times at single-base resolution. Its application to human cells demonstrates that, proximal to promoters, polymerases pause more frequently but for shorter times than in other genomic regions. Pausing release by the detergent sarkosyl, previously believed to be linked to the factor NELF at the promoter proximal region only, is independent of the latter. Comparison with single-cell gene expression data reveals that the polymerase pausing times are longer in highly expressed genes, while transcriptionally noisier genes have higher pausing frequencies and slightly longer pausing times. Analyses of histone modifications suggest that the marker H3K36me3 is related to the polymerase pausing.

Publisher

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

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