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PLOS ONE
Volume 9, Issue 6, Pages -Publisher
PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0099989
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- Intramural Research Program of the US National Institutes of Health
- US National Cancer Institute
- US National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities
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A central hallmark of epigenetic inheritance is the parental transmission of changes in patterns of gene expression to progeny without modification of DNA sequence. Although, the trans-generational conveyance of this molecular memory has been traditionally linked to covalent modification of histone and/or DNA, recent studies suggest a role for proteins that persist or remain bound within chromatin to bookmark specific loci for enhanced or potentiated responses in daughter cells immediately following cell division. In this report we describe a role for p300 in enabling gene bookmarking by pre-initiation complexes (PICs) containing RNA polymerase II (pol II), Mediator and TBP. Once formed these complexes require p300 to facilitate reacquisition of protein complex assemblies, chromatin modifications and long range chromatin interactions that enable post-mitotic transmission of transcriptional memory of prior environmental stimuli.
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