Message in a nucleus: signaling to the transcriptional machinery.

Abstract:

:Tissue differentiation and signal transduction involve dramatic changes in gene expression. These changes can be brought about by the expression or activation of sequence-specific transcription factors. In order to regulate their target genes, such factors must navigate the intricate chromatin environment and engage the complex basal transcriptional machinery. We discuss three mechanisms through which signaling pathways can interact with complexes that alter chromatin structure or recruit RNA polymerase II. Signals that promote differentiation may alter the properties of such transcriptional regulatory complexes by incorporating tissue-specific subunits. Alternatively, adaptor subunits specialized to interact with specific transcription factors may allow a single complex to respond to multiple signals. Finally, individual regulatory proteins may integrate a variety of signals, allowing crosstalk between pathways.

journal_name

Curr Opin Genet Dev

authors

Carrera I,Treisman JE

doi

10.1016/j.gde.2008.07.007

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2008-10-01 00:00:00

pages

397-403

issue

5

eissn

0959-437X

issn

1879-0380

pii

S0959-437X(08)00086-5

journal_volume

18

pub_type

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