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ABSTRACT:
ORGANISM(S): Mus musculus
SUBMITTER: Ian Sudbery
PROVIDER: E-GEOD-40701 | biostudies-arrayexpress |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress
Farcas Anca M AM Blackledge Neil P NP Sudbery Ian I Long Hannah K HK McGouran Joanna F JF Rose Nathan R NR Lee Sheena S Sims David D Cerase Andrea A Sheahan Thomas W TW Koseki Haruhiko H Brockdorff Neil N Ponting Chris P CP Kessler Benedikt M BM Klose Robert J RJ
eLife 20121218
CpG islands (CGIs) are associated with most mammalian gene promoters. A subset of CGIs act as polycomb response elements (PREs) and are recognized by the polycomb silencing systems to regulate expression of genes involved in early development. How CGIs function mechanistically as nucleation sites for polycomb repressive complexes remains unknown. Here we discover that KDM2B (FBXL10) specifically recognizes non-methylated DNA in CGIs and recruits the polycomb repressive complex 1 (PRC1). This con ...[more]