SWItching on epidermal cell fate.

Perdigoto, Carolina N; Bardot, Evan S; Ezhkova, Elena · Cell Stem Cell · 2013

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

Chromatin regulatory complexes are well known regulators of stem cell fate; however, the mechanisms regulating their activity are not well understood. In this issue of Cell Stem Cell, Bao et al. (2013) show that ACTL6a inhibits targeting of the SWI/SNF complex to differentiation genes, thereby preserving the epidermal progenitor state.