Turan Tufan, Gamze Comertpay, Ambra Villani, Geoffrey M Nelson, Marina Terekhova, Shannon Kelley, Pavel Zakharov, Rochelle M Ellison, Oleg Shpynov, Michael Raymond, Jerry Sun, Yitan Chen, Enno Bockelmann, Marta Stremska, Lance W Peterson, Laura Boeckaerts, Seth R Goldman, J Iker Etchegaray, Maxim N Artyomov, Francesca Peri, Kodi S Ravichandran
During development, inflammation or tissue injury, macrophages may successively engulf and process multiple apoptotic corpses via efferocytosis to achieve tissue homeostasis1 . How macrophages may rapidly adapt their transcription to achieve continuous corpse uptake is incompletely understood. Transcriptional pause/release is an evolutionarily conserved mechanism, in which RNA polymerase (Pol) II initiates transcription for 20-60 nucleotides, is paused for minutes to hours and is then released to make full-length mRNA2 ...
March 13, 2024: Nature