Protein electrophoresis and western blots were carried out as described in [50 (link)]. The employed antibodies included the anti-Rpb1 (against the CTD; manufactured in our laboratory) [88 (link)], anti-RNA pol II CTD phosphor Tyr1 (Active Motif), anti-RNA pol II phospho-CTDSer7 (4E12) (Chromotek, Planegg, Germany), anti-phosphoglycerate kinase, Pgk1 (22C5D8; Invitrogen, Massachusetts, USA ), anti-H3 (ab1791; Abcam, Cambridge, UK) and PAP (Sigma, St. Louis, MO, USA) antibodies.
IMAGE STUDIO LITE software (5.2. version) was utilised to quantify the intensities of the immunoreactive bands.