What can you predict about the location of core promoter sequences and polyadenylation cut sites in the genomic sequence of a gene with multiple transcription start and termination sites?
Core promoters for multiple transcription start site are located between two distinct regions of DNA ; CpG islands and ATG deserts.
CpG island is a stretch of DNA rich in CpG dinucleotide , which is a methyl transferase substrate.
ATG desert is the region of DNA which has a lower occurance of ATG trinucleotode than surrounding sequence and are responsible for use of multiple, dispersed transcription start site, so, permitting the core promoter to serve as a platform where complex upstream regulatory signals are integrated.
For multiple transcription termination site, Poly A site cut site choice is regulated mainly by core RNA 3ʹ end processing factors :
cleavage factor I
cleavage & polyadenylation specificity factor,
other RNA-binding proteins, particularly splicing factors
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