Histone editing elucidates the functional roles of H3K27 methylation and acetylation in mammals

Autor: Aditya Sankar, Faizaan Mohammad, Arun Kumar Sundaramurthy, Hua Wang, Mads Lerdrup, Tulin Tatar, Kristian Helin
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: Nat Genet
ISSN: 1546-1718
1061-4036
DOI: 10.1038/s41588-022-01091-2
Popis: A new study employs CRISPR/Cas9-based base editing for simultaneous mutagenesis of all copies of histone H3 genes in mammals, highlighting the functional importance of H3K27me3 for Polycomb-mediated gene silencing and the dispensability for H3K27ac in transcriptional activation.
Databáze: OpenAIRE