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Structural highlights

Disease

ELL_HUMAN Note=A chromosomal aberration involving ELL is found in acute leukemias. Translocation t(11;19)(q23;p13.1) with MLL/HRX. The result is a rogue activator protein.

Function

ELL_HUMAN Elongation factor component of the super elongation complex (SEC), a complex required to increase the catalytic rate of RNA polymerase II transcription by suppressing transient pausing by the polymerase at multiple sites along the DNA. ELL also plays an early role before its assembly into in the SEC complex by stabilizing RNA polymerase II recruitment/initiation and entry into the pause site. Required to stabilize the pre-initiation complex and early elongation.^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [5]}

Evolutionary Conservation

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References

1. ↑ Shilatifard A, Lane WS, Jackson KW, Conaway RC, Conaway JW. An RNA polymerase II elongation factor encoded by the human ELL gene. Science. 1996 Mar 29;271(5257):1873-6. PMID:8596958
2. ↑ Kong SE, Banks CA, Shilatifard A, Conaway JW, Conaway RC. ELL-associated factors 1 and 2 are positive regulators of RNA polymerase II elongation factor ELL. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 Jul 19;102(29):10094-8. Epub 2005 Jul 8. PMID:16006523 doi:10.1073/pnas.0503017102
3. ↑ He N, Liu M, Hsu J, Xue Y, Chou S, Burlingame A, Krogan NJ, Alber T, Zhou Q. HIV-1 Tat and host AFF4 recruit two transcription elongation factors into a bifunctional complex for coordinated activation of HIV-1 transcription. Mol Cell. 2010 May 14;38(3):428-38. doi: 10.1016/j.molcel.2010.04.013. PMID:20471948 doi:10.1016/j.molcel.2010.04.013
4. ↑ Lin C, Smith ER, Takahashi H, Lai KC, Martin-Brown S, Florens L, Washburn MP, Conaway JW, Conaway RC, Shilatifard A. AFF4, a component of the ELL/P-TEFb elongation complex and a shared subunit of MLL chimeras, can link transcription elongation to leukemia. Mol Cell. 2010 Feb 12;37(3):429-37. doi: 10.1016/j.molcel.2010.01.026. PMID:20159561 doi:10.1016/j.molcel.2010.01.026
5. ↑ Byun JS, Fufa TD, Wakano C, Fernandez A, Haggerty CM, Sung MH, Gardner K. ELL facilitates RNA polymerase II pause site entry and release. Nat Commun. 2012 Jan 17;3:633. doi: 10.1038/ncomms1652. PMID:22252557 doi:10.1038/ncomms1652