Imaging-based assays for investigating functions of the RNA polymerase II elongation factor Elongin and the Elongin ubiquitin ligase.

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Stowers Institute for Medical Research, 1000 E 50th Street, Kansas City, MO 64110, United States; Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS 66160, United States. Electronic address:

Published: April 2019


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Elongin A binds to Elongins B and C to form the RNA polymerase II transcription elongation factor Elongin. It also functions as the substrate recognition subunit of a ubiquitin ligase that is formed by binding of Elongin to Cullin protein CUL5 and RING finger protein RBX2 and that targets RNA polymerase II for ubiquitination. In this article, we describe use of acceptor photobleaching fluorescence resonance energy transfer (AP-FRET) and laser microirradiation-based assays to study regulated assembly of the Elongin ubiquitin ligase and its recruitment to regions of localized DNA damage.

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