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    The conserved foot domain of RNA pol II associates with proteins involved in transcriptional initiation and/or early elongation

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    RNA polymerase (pol) II establishes many protein-protein interactions with transcriptional regulators to coordinate different steps of transcription. Although some of these interactions have been well described, little is known about the existence of RNA pol II regions involved in contact with transcriptional regulators. We hypothesize that conserved regions on the surface of RNA pol II contact transcriptional regulators. We identified such an RNA pol II conserved region that includes the majority of the >foot> domain and identified interactions of this region with Mvp1, a protein required for sorting proteins to the vacuole, and Spo14, a phospholipase D. Deletion of MVP1 and SPO14 affects the transcription of their target genes and increases phosphorylation of Ser5 in the carboxyterminal domain (CTD). Genetic, phenotypic, and functional analyses point to a role for these proteins in transcriptional initiation and/ or early elongation, consistent with their genetic interactions with CEG1, a guanylyltransferase subunit of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae capping enzyme. © 2011 by the Genetics Society of America.This work was supported by grants of Spanish Ministry of Education and Science, Ministry of Sciencie and Innovation and FEDER (BFU2007-67575-C03-03/BMC, BFU2010-21975-C03-02 Spain) and Junta de Andalucía (BIO258, P08-CVI-03508) to F.N, BFU2007-67575-C03-01/BMC to J.E.P-O., and BFU 2009-07179 to O.C.. A.I. G-G. was recipient of predoctoral fellowships from Universidad de Jaén and currently from Ministry of Education and Culture. A.G. was supported by a fellowship from the Junta de Castilla y León.Peer Reviewe
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