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CURRENT OPINION IN GENETICS & DEVELOPMENT
Volume 20, Issue 5, Pages 519-526Publisher
CURRENT BIOLOGY LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.gde.2010.06.010
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- NIH [R21CA137278]
- NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE [R21CA137278] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
- NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DIABETES AND DIGESTIVE AND KIDNEY DISEASES [R01DK043726] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
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Most studies of tissue-specific and developmental stage-specific transcription have focused on the DNA motifs, transcription factors, or chromatin events required for the active transcription of a gene in cells in which the gene is expressed, or for its active or heritable silencing in nonexpressing cells. However, accumulating evidence suggests that, in multicellular eukaryotes, enhancers or promoters for tissue-specific genes interact with pioneer transcription factors in embryonic stem cells and at other early stages of development, long before the genes are transcribed. These early interactions, which can lead to the presence of unmethylated CpG dinucleotides, histone modification signatures, and/or chromatin remodeling, may carry out different functions at different classes of genes.
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