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Published online 29 December 2003. doi:10.1083/jcb.200306104
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JCB, Volume 164, Number 1, 25-33
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Stress-induced transcription of satellite III repeats



Caroline Jolly1, Alexandra Metz1, Jérôme Govin1, Marc Vigneron2, Bryan M. Turner3, Saadi Khochbin1 and Claire Vourc'h1

1 INSERM U309, Institut A. Bonniot, 38706 La Tronche cedex, France
2 UMR 7100 CNRS, ESBS, BP 10413, 67412 Illkirch cedex, France
3 Chromatin and Gene Expression Group, Anatomy Department, University of Birmingham Medical School, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK

Address correspondence to Caroline Jolly. Tel.: (33) 476-54-94-70. Fax: (33) 476-54-95-95. email: caroline.jolly{at}ujf-grenoble.fr

Exposure of mammalian cells to stress induces the activation of heat shock transcription factor 1 (HSF1) and the subsequent transcription of heat shock genes. Activation of the heat shock response also correlates with a rapid relocalization of HSF1 within a few nuclear structures termed nuclear stress granules. These stress-induced structures, which form primarily on the 9q12 region in humans through direct binding of HSF1 to satellite III repeats, do not colocalize with transcription sites of known hsp genes. In this paper, we show that nuclear stress granules correspond to RNA polymerase II transcription factories where satellite III repeats are transcribed into large and stable RNAs that remain associated with the 9q12 region, even throughout mitosis. This work not only reveals the existence of a new major heat-induced transcript in human cells that may play a role in chromatin structure, but also provides evidence for a transcriptional activity within a locus considered so far as heterochromatic and silent.

Key Words: HSF1; RNA polymerase II; satellite III; stress; transcription

C. Jolly and A. Metz contributed equally to this work.

Abbreviations used in this paper: CBP, CREB binding protein; HSF1, heat shock transcription factor 1; HSP, heat shock protein; sat III, satellite III.


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