Abstract

Mapping ADP-ribosylation by PARPs During many cell processes, ADP-ribose is transferred from NAD + onto protein substrates by poly(ADP-ribose) polymerases (PARPs). Gibson et al. developed a method to track ribose transfer events and mapped hundreds of sites of ADP-ribosylation for PARPs 1, 2, and 3 across the proteome and genome. One PARP-1 target is NELF, a protein complex that regulates pausing by RNA polymerase II. If NELF is ribosylated, pausing is released and productive transcription elongation resumes. Science , this issue p. 45