Phase Separation, Protein Disorder, and Enhancer Function.

Hahn, Steven · Cell · 2018

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

New findings suggest that transcription enhancers work by recruitment of a large dynamic network of coactivators and other factors responsible for gene activation. Formation of these condensates is driven by DNA-bound transcription factors, their intrinsically disordered activation domains, and dynamic low-specificity interactions within the complex.

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