High-resolution mapping of transcribing RNAPIII by CRAC upon mutation or depletion of Sen1 [Experiment 1]

Here we report high-resolution analyses of transcribing RNAPIII in either a wild-type (WT) background , a sen1-3 mutant or a Sen1 auxin-inducible degron (AID) strain in which Sen1 can be rapidly depleted upon addition of the auxin analogue Indole-3-acetic acid (IAA). Sen1 is a well-characterized transcription termination factor for RNAPII-dependent genes in budding yeast. Here we show that the presence of three point mutations in sen1-3 that abrogate the interaction of Sen1 with RNAPIII, as well as the depletion of Sen1 provoke global transcription termination defects at RNAPIII-dependent genes. These results indicate that Sen1 is also a transcription termination factor for RNAPIII transcription units. Overall design: Analysis of the effect of the mutation or the depletion of Sen1 on RNAPIII-dependent transcription genome-wide using CRAC