A distal intergenic region controls pancreatic endocrine differentiation by acting as a transcriptional enhancer and as a polycomb response element.

Lineage-selective expression of developmental genes is dependent on the interplay between activating and repressive mechanisms. Gene activation is dependent on cell-specific transcription factors that recognize transcriptional enhancer sequences. Gene repression often depends on the recruitment of P...

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Main Authors: Joris van Arensbergen, Sebastien Dussaud, Corinne Pardanaud-Glavieux, Javier García-Hurtado, Claire Sauty, Aline Guerci, Jorge Ferrer, Philippe Ravassard
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0171508&type=printable
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