2012
First Exon Length Controls Active Chromatin Signatures and Transcription
Bieberstein NI, Oesterreich F, Straube K, Neugebauer KM. First Exon Length Controls Active Chromatin Signatures and Transcription. Cell Reports 2012, 2: 62-68. PMID: 22840397, DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2012.05.019.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsGeneral transcription factorsTranscription start siteFirst exonShort first exonExon-intron organizationGenome-wide analysisHistone modifications H3K4me3Active chromatin signatureRNA polymerase IIRole of splicingTransgenic cell linesChIP-seq dataLong first exonChromatin signaturesGene architectureExon-intron boundariesHigh expression levelsAntisense transcriptionTranscriptional outputPolymerase IIH3K4me3 levelsGene activityTSS usageTranscription factorsExon length
2011
Pause locally, splice globally
Oesterreich F, Bieberstein N, Neugebauer KM. Pause locally, splice globally. Trends In Cell Biology 2011, 21: 328-335. PMID: 21530266, DOI: 10.1016/j.tcb.2011.03.002.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchMeSH KeywordsAnimalsChromatinHistonesHumansNucleosomesRNA Polymerase IIRNA SplicingTranscription, GeneticConceptsRNA polymerase II elongation rateContext of chromatinProtein-coding transcriptsRNA polymerase IIPre-mRNA splicingTranscript bodyTranscriptional pausingHistone modificationsPolymerase IIIntron removalSplicingTranscriptionElongation rateGenesTranscriptsRecent evidenceChromatinIntronsPausingElongationRegulatorLocal regulationRegulationRecruitment
2010
Global Analysis of Nascent RNA Reveals Transcriptional Pausing in Terminal Exons
Oesterreich F, Preibisch S, Neugebauer KM. Global Analysis of Nascent RNA Reveals Transcriptional Pausing in Terminal Exons. Molecular Cell 2010, 40: 571-581. PMID: 21095587, DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2010.11.004.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsTerminal exonNascent RNATranscription profilesIntron-containing genesHigh-density tiling microarraysPre-mRNA splicingSplicing kineticsTranscriptional pausingTiling microarraysPol IISplicing catalysisSplicing efficiencyGenes lackSplicingExonsTranscriptionGenesRNAGlobal analysisFunctional couplingSilico simulationsIntronlessSpliceosomePausingYeast