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Expression of fission yeast glycerophosphate transporter Tgp1 is repressed in phosphate-rich medium and induced during phosphate starvation. Repression is enforced by transcription of the nc-tgp1 locus upstream of tgp1 to produce a long noncoding (lnc) RNA. Here we identify two essential elements of the nc-tgp1 promoter: a TATA box -30 TATATATA -23 and a HomolD box -64 CAGTCACA -57 , mutations of which inactivate the nc-tgp1 promoter and de-repress the downstream tgp1 promoter under phosphate-replete conditions. The nc-tgp1 lncRNA poly(A) site maps to nucleotide +1636 of the transcription unit, which coincides with the binding site for Pho7 ( 1632 TCGGACATTCAA 1643 ), the transcription factor that drives tgp1 expression. Overlap between the lncRNA template and the tgp1 promoter points to transcriptional interference as the simplest basis for lncRNA repression. We identify a shorter RNA derived from the nc-tgp1 locus, polyadenylated at position +508, well upstream of the tgp1 promoter. Mutating the nc-tgp1-short RNA polyadenylation signal abolishes de-repression of the downstream tgp1 promoter elicited by Pol2 CTD Ser5Ala phospho-site mutation. Ser5 mutation favors utilization of the short RNA poly(A) site, thereby diminishing transcription of the lncRNA that interferes with the tgp1 promoter. Mutating the nc-tgp1-short RNA polyadenylation signal attenuates induction of the tgp1 promoter during phosphate starvation. Polyadenylation site choice governed by CTD Ser5 status adds a new level of lncRNA control of gene expression and reveals a new feature of the fission yeast CTD code.

Poly(A) site choice and Pol2 CTD Serine-5 status govern lncRNA control of phosphate-responsive tgp1 gene expression in fission yeast