Keep Them Close: PRC2 Poises Enhancer-Promoter Interactions at Anterior Neuronal Genes.

Caglio, Giulia; Torlai Triglia, Elena; Pombo, Ana · Cell Stem Cell · 2017

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Abstract

Enhancers exist in different epigenetic states: active, primed, or poised. However, it is not yet understood how the different enhancer states influence gene activation. In this issue of Cell Stem Cell, Cruz-Molina et al. (2017) unravel how poised enhancers activate anterior neural genes and the role of Polycomb proteins in enhancer-promoter contacts.

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