SSU72

Summary

Gene Symbol: SSU72
Description: RNA polymerase II subunit A C-terminal domain phosphatase
Alias: RNA polymerase II subunit A C-terminal domain phosphatase
Species: Saccharomyces cerevisiae S288c

Top Publications

  1. Ghazy M, He X, Singh B, Hampsey M, Moore C. The essential N terminus of the Pta1 scaffold protein is required for snoRNA transcription termination and Ssu72 function but is dispensable for pre-mRNA 3'-end processing. Mol Cell Biol. 2009;29:2296-307 pubmed publisher
    ..Furthermore, different regions of Pta1 interact with the CPF subunits Ssu72, Pti1, and Ysh1, supporting the idea that Pta1 acts as a scaffold to organize CPF...
  2. Krishnamurthy S, He X, Reyes Reyes M, Moore C, Hampsey M. Ssu72 Is an RNA polymerase II CTD phosphatase. Mol Cell. 2004;14:387-94 pubmed
    ..The Fcp1 CTD phosphatase catalyzes dephosphorylation of S2-P. Here, we report that Ssu72, a component of the yeast cleavage/polyadenylation factor (CPF) complex, is a CTD phosphatase with specificity for ..
  3. Kyburz A, Sadowski M, Dichtl B, Keller W. The role of the yeast cleavage and polyadenylation factor subunit Ydh1p/Cft2p in pre-mRNA 3'-end formation. Nucleic Acids Res. 2003;31:3936-45 pubmed
  4. Nedea E, He X, Kim M, Pootoolal J, Zhong G, Canadien V, et al. Organization and function of APT, a subcomplex of the yeast cleavage and polyadenylation factor involved in the formation of mRNA and small nucleolar RNA 3'-ends. J Biol Chem. 2003;278:33000-10 pubmed
    ..The latter can form a distinct complex, APT, in which Pti1, Swd2, a type I protein phosphatase (Glc7), Ssu72 (a TFIIB and RNA polymerase II-associated factor), Ref2, and Syc1 are associated with the Pta1 subunit of CPF...
  5. Meinhart A, Silberzahn T, Cramer P. The mRNA transcription/processing factor Ssu72 is a potential tyrosine phosphatase. J Biol Chem. 2003;278:15917-21 pubmed
    b>Ssu72 is an essential and highly conserved protein involved in mRNA transcription and 3'-end processing. The biochemical function of Ssu72 was so far unknown...
  6. He X, Khan A, Cheng H, Pappas D, Hampsey M, Moore C. Functional interactions between the transcription and mRNA 3' end processing machineries mediated by Ssu72 and Sub1. Genes Dev. 2003;17:1030-42 pubmed
    ..molecular, and genetic methods, we have found that the phylogenetically conserved transcription factor Ssu72 is a component of the cleavage/polyadenylation factor (CPF) of Saccharomyces cerevisiae...
  7. Nedea E, Nalbant D, Xia D, Theoharis N, Suter B, Richardson C, et al. The Glc7 phosphatase subunit of the cleavage and polyadenylation factor is essential for transcription termination on snoRNA genes. Mol Cell. 2008;29:577-87 pubmed publisher
    ..Swd2 is also a subunit of the Set1c histone H3K4 methyltransferase complex and is required for its stability and optimal methyltransferase activity. ..
  8. Lee S, Moore C. Efficient mRNA polyadenylation requires a ubiquitin-like domain, a zinc knuckle, and a RING finger domain, all contained in the Mpe1 protein. Mol Cell Biol. 2014;34:3955-67 pubmed publisher
    ..Furthermore, an inhibitor of ubiquitin-mediated interactions blocks cleavage, demonstrating for the first time a direct role for ubiquitination in mRNA 3'-end processing. ..
  9. Pappas D, Hampsey M. Functional interaction between Ssu72 and the Rpb2 subunit of RNA polymerase II in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Mol Cell Biol. 2000;20:8343-51 pubmed
    b>SSU72 is an essential gene encoding a phylogenetically conserved protein of unknown function that interacts with the general transcription factor TFIIB...

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  1. Steinmetz E, Brow D. Ssu72 protein mediates both poly(A)-coupled and poly(A)-independent termination of RNA polymerase II transcription. Mol Cell Biol. 2003;23:6339-49 pubmed
    ..recogniton of the SNR13 terminator yielded mutations in the gene coding for the essential Pol II-binding protein Ssu72. Ssu72 has recently been found to associate with the pre-mRNA cleavage/polyadenylation machinery, and we find that ..
  2. Clemente Blanco A, Sen N, Mayán Santos M, Sacristán M, Graham B, Jarmuz A, et al. Cdc14 phosphatase promotes segregation of telomeres through repression of RNA polymerase II transcription. Nat Cell Biol. 2011;13:1450-6 pubmed publisher
    ..Finally, telomere segregation defects in cdc14 mutants(4) correlate with the presence of subtelomeric Y' elements and can be rescued by transcriptional inhibition of RNA polymerase II. ..
  3. Allepuz Fuster P, Martínez Fernández V, Garrido Godino A, Alonso Aguado S, Hanes S, Navarro F, et al. Rpb4/7 facilitates RNA polymerase II CTD dephosphorylation. Nucleic Acids Res. 2014;42:13674-88 pubmed
    ..RPB4 interacted genetically with genes encoding CTD phosphatases (SSU72, FCP1), CTD kinases (KIN28, CTK1, SRB10) and a prolyl isomerase that targets the CTD (ESS1)...
  4. Schreieck A, Easter A, Etzold S, Wiederhold K, Lidschreiber M, Cramer P, et al. RNA polymerase II termination involves C-terminal-domain tyrosine dephosphorylation by CPF subunit Glc7. Nat Struct Mol Biol. 2014;21:175-179 pubmed publisher
    ..These results show that transcription termination involves Tyr1 dephosphorylation of the CTD and indicate that pre-mRNA processing by CPF and transcription termination are coupled via Glc7-dependent Pol II-Tyr1 dephosphorylation. ..
  5. Rosado Lugo J, Hampsey M. The Ssu72 phosphatase mediates the RNA polymerase II initiation-elongation transition. J Biol Chem. 2014;289:33916-26 pubmed publisher
    ..An essential phosphatase in this process is Ssu72, which exhibits catalytic specificity for Ser(P)(5) and Ser(P)(7)...
  6. Rodríguez Torres A, Lamas Maceiras M, García Díaz R, Freire Picos M. Structurally conserved and functionally divergent yeast Ssu72 phosphatases. FEBS Lett. 2013;587:2617-22 pubmed publisher
    The eukaryotic Ssu72 factor is involved in several RNA biogenesis processes. It has phosphatase activity on the carboxy-terminal domain (CTD) of the major subunit of RNA polymerase II...
  7. Ghazy M, Gordon J, Lee S, Singh B, Bohm A, Hampsey M, et al. The interaction of Pcf11 and Clp1 is needed for mRNA 3'-end formation and is modulated by amino acids in the ATP-binding site. Nucleic Acids Res. 2012;40:1214-25 pubmed publisher
    ..These results define Clp1 as a bridge between CF IA and CPF and indicate that the Clp1-Pcf11 interaction is modulated by amino acids in the conserved ATP-binding site of Clp1. ..
  8. Ezeokonkwo C, Zhelkovsky A, Lee R, Bohm A, Moore C. A flexible linker region in Fip1 is needed for efficient mRNA polyadenylation. RNA. 2011;17:652-64 pubmed publisher
    ..Our results indicate that the Fip1 linker, through its flexibility and protein/protein interactions, allows Pap1 to reach the 3' end of the cleaved RNA and efficiently initiate poly(A) addition. ..
  9. Hausmann S, Koiwa H, Krishnamurthy S, Hampsey M, Shuman S. Different strategies for carboxyl-terminal domain (CTD) recognition by serine 5-specific CTD phosphatases. J Biol Chem. 2005;280:37681-8 pubmed
    ..Here we describe how the CTD code is read by two classes of protein phosphatases, plant CPLs and yeast Ssu72, that specifically dephosphorylate Ser(5) in vitro...
  10. Reyes Reyes M, Hampsey M. Role for the Ssu72 C-terminal domain phosphatase in RNA polymerase II transcription elongation. Mol Cell Biol. 2007;27:926-36 pubmed
    ..One of the enzymes involved in this process is Ssu72, a CTD phosphatase with specificity for serine-5-P...
  11. Ganem C, Miled C, Facca C, Valay J, Labesse G, Ben Hassine S, et al. Kinase Cak1 functionally interacts with the PAF1 complex and phosphatase Ssu72 via kinases Ctk1 and Bur1. Mol Genet Genomics. 2006;275:136-47 pubmed
    ..Paf1 and Ctr9, two components belonging to the PAF1 elongation complex needed for histone modifications, and with Ssu72, a protein phosphatase that dephosphorylates serine-5 phosphate in the RNA Pol II C-terminal domain...
  12. Dichtl B, Blank D, Ohnacker M, Friedlein A, Roeder D, Langen H, et al. A role for SSU72 in balancing RNA polymerase II transcription elongation and termination. Mol Cell. 2002;10:1139-50 pubmed
    ..Analyses of ssu72-2 mutant cells in the absence and presence of the nuclear exosome component Rrp6p revealed defects in RNAP II ..
  13. Wu W, Pinto I, Chen B, Hampsey M. Mutational analysis of yeast TFIIB. A functional relationship between Ssu72 and Sub1/Tsp1 defined by allele-specific interactions with TFIIB. Genetics. 1999;153:643-52 pubmed
    ..including the initial sua7 alleles, was used to investigate the allele specificity of interactions between ssu72 and sub1, both of which were initially identified as either suppressors (SUB1 2mu) or enhancers (sub1Delta, ssu72-..
  14. Morlando M, Ballarino M, Greco P, Caffarelli E, Dichtl B, Bozzoni I. Coupling between snoRNP assembly and 3' processing controls box C/D snoRNA biosynthesis in yeast. EMBO J. 2004;23:2392-401 pubmed
    ..These data suggest a mechanism of quality control in which efficient transcription and 3'-end formation occur only when nascent snoRNAs are successfully assembled into functional particles. ..
  15. Smith Kinnaman W, Berna M, Hunter G, True J, Hsu P, Cabello G, et al. The interactome of the atypical phosphatase Rtr1 in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Mol Biosyst. 2014;10:1730-41 pubmed publisher
    ..Interestingly, we found that the interaction between Rtr1 and RNAPII is decreased in ctk1? strains. We hypothesize that serine-2 CTD phosphorylation is required for Rtr1 recruitment to RNAPII during transcription elongation. ..
  16. Sun Z, Tessmer A, Hampsey M. Functional interaction between TFIIB and the Rpb9 (Ssu73) subunit of RNA polymerase II in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Nucleic Acids Res. 1996;24:2560-6 pubmed
    Recessive mutations in the SSU71, SSU72 and SSU73 genes of Saccharomyces cerevisiae were identified as either suppressors or enhancers of a TFIIB defect (sua7-1) that confers both a cold-sensitive growth phenotype and a downstream shift ..
  17. Zhang D, Mosley A, Ramisetty S, Rodríguez Molina J, Washburn M, Ansari A. Ssu72 phosphatase-dependent erasure of phospho-Ser7 marks on the RNA polymerase II C-terminal domain is essential for viability and transcription termination. J Biol Chem. 2012;287:8541-51 pubmed publisher
    ..Our observations implicate Ssu72 as a Ser7-P phosphatase...
  18. Ganem C, Devaux F, Torchet C, Jacq C, Quevillon Cheruel S, Labesse G, et al. Ssu72 is a phosphatase essential for transcription termination of snoRNAs and specific mRNAs in yeast. EMBO J. 2003;22:1588-98 pubmed
    b>Ssu72 is an essential yeast protein that is involved in transcription. It physically interacts with transcription initiation and termination complexes...
  19. Sun Z, Hampsey M. Synthetic enhancement of a TFIIB defect by a mutation in SSU72, an essential yeast gene encoding a novel protein that affects transcription start site selection in vivo. Mol Cell Biol. 1996;16:1557-66 pubmed
    An ssu72 mutant of Saccharomyces cerevisiae was identified as an enhancer of a TFIIB defect (sua7-1) that confers both a cold-sensitive growth defect and a downstream shift in transcription start site selection...
  20. Dheur S, Nykamp K, Viphakone N, Swanson M, Minvielle Sebastia L. Yeast mRNA Poly(A) tail length control can be reconstituted in vitro in the absence of Pab1p-dependent Poly(A) nuclease activity. J Biol Chem. 2005;280:24532-8 pubmed
    ..Based on these findings, we propose that Nab2p is necessary and sufficient to regulate poly(A) tail length during de novo synthesis in yeast. ..
  21. Krishnamurthy S, Ghazy M, Moore C, Hampsey M. Functional interaction of the Ess1 prolyl isomerase with components of the RNA polymerase II initiation and termination machineries. Mol Cell Biol. 2009;29:2925-34 pubmed publisher
    ..Ess1 peptidyl prolyl isomerase functionally interacts with the transcription initiation factor TFIIB and with the Ssu72 CTD phosphatase and Pta1 components of the CPF 3'-end processing complex...
  22. Somesh B, Reid J, Liu W, Søgaard T, Erdjument Bromage H, Tempst P, et al. Multiple mechanisms confining RNA polymerase II ubiquitylation to polymerases undergoing transcriptional arrest. Cell. 2005;121:913-23 pubmed
    ..this, ubiquitylated RNAPII is hypophosphorylated at serine 5 in vivo, and mutation of the serine 5 phosphatase SSU72 inhibits RNAPII degradation...