Progenitor competence: genes switching places.

Cayouette, Michel; Mattar, Pierre; Harris, William A · Cell · 2013

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

Drosophila neural progenitor cells are competent to give rise to certain neuronal cell types only during a limited period of time. Kohwi et al. link the termination of early competence to changes in subnuclear organization of chromatin.