The results of our joint research with Prof. Hidetaka Takahashi and colleagues at Yokohama City University have been published in Nature Communications. This study revealed that a central factor for transcription initiation called Mediator and a transcription elongation factor complex called Little Elongation Complex (LEC) are involved in transcription termination of some genes in a cooperative manner. This study has elucidated one aspect of the relationship between transcription initiation, elongation, termination, and each other.