Waterman Lectures

MBB 206 Spring 2009

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Ext. 42885, mlwaterm@uci.edu, Med Sci I, Rm, B251

 

 Syllabus for transcription lectures

 

2008 exam key

 

 

 

Topic 1 Molecular Aspects of Transcription

 

1° Paper: Willy PJ, Kobayashi R, Kadonaga JT. A basal transcription factor that activates or represses transcription. Science. 2000 Nov 3;290(5493):982-5

Review 1: Struhl K. Fundamentally different logic of gene regulation in eukaryotes and prokaryotes. Cell. 1999 Jul 9;98(1):1-4.

Review 2: Levine, M. and R. Tjian. Transcription Regulation and Animal Diversity. 2003.  Nature Jul. 10 424:147-151.

 

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Topic 2 Assembly of Polymerase-Promoter Complexes and Initiation of Transcription

1° Paper: Kanin, E.I. et al. Chemical inhibition of the TFIIH-associated kinase Cdk7/Kin28 does not impair global mRNA synthesis.  2007. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 104(14):5812-5817

Review 1: Juven-Gershon T., J.-Y. Hsu and J.T. Kadonaga. 2006. Perspectives on the RNA polymerase core promoter.  Biochem. Soc. Trans. 34:1047-1050.

Review 2: Wade JT, Struhl K. The transition from transcriptional initiation to elongation.  Curr Opin Genet Dev. 2008 Feb 16; [Epub ahead of print]

Optional Resource Reading for Structural Studies:  Hahn, S.  Structure and Mechanism of the RNA Polymerase II Transcription Machinery. 2004.  Nat. Struc. Mol. Biol. 11:394.

Optional Resource Reading for Structural Studies: Lee, T.I. and R.A. Young. 2000.  Transcription of Eukaryotic Protein-Coding Genes

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Topic 3 Promoter Regulation and Transcription Factors

1° Paper: Johnson DS, Mortazavi A, Myers RM, Wold B. Genome-wide mapping of in vivo protein-DNA interactions. Science. 2007 Jun 8;316(5830):1497-502.

1° Paper: Boyer et al. 2005. Core Transcriptional Regulatory Circuitry in Human Embryonic Stem Cells.  Cell 122:947-956.

            Comment in: Orkin, SH.  2005.  Chipping away at the embryonic stem cell network.  Cell. 122:828-830.

Review:  Kadonaga, J.T. Regulation of RNA Polymerase II Transcription by Sequence-Specific DNA Binding Factors.  2004.  Cell 116:247-257.

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Topic 4 Promoter Regulation and Chromatin

1° Paper: Feldman et al. 2006.  Nature Cell biology 8:188-194.

Review:  Li, B., M. Carey, and J.L. Workman. 2007.  The role of chromatin during transcription.  Cell 128:707-719

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Topic 5 Distal Regulatory Regions

1° Paper: Saveliev et al. 2003.  DNA triplet repeats mediate heterochromatin-protein-1-sensitive variegated gene silencing.  Nature 422:909-913.

Review 1:  Grewal, S.I.S. and D. Moazed. Heterochromatin and Epigenetic Control of Gene Expression.  Science Aug. 8 301:798-802.

Optional Review: Biggin MD, Tjian R. Transcriptional regulation in Drosophila: the post-genome challenge.Funct Integr Genomics. 2001 Mar;1(4):223-34

Optional Review: Blackwood, E.M. and J.T. Kadonaga. 2000. Going the Distance: A Current View of Enhancer Action. Science 281:60-63

Optional Review: Bell, A.C., A.G. West, and G. Felsenfeld. 2001. Insulators and Boundaries: Versatile Regulatory Elements in the Eukaryotic Genome. Science 291:447-450.

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2008 STEM CELL READING (OPTIONAL)

Primary Paper:  A detailed protocol for generating iPS cells from mouse fibroblasts

 

Cautionary News and Views about iPS stem cells

 

Letter to the Editor by iPS scientists about hES cell research