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SUBMITTER: Dahle O
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6953396 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Dahle Øyvind Ø Kumar Amit A Kuehn Michael R MR
Science signaling 20100622 127
Both intercellular signaling and epigenetic mechanisms regulate embryonic development, but it is unclear how they are integrated to establish and maintain lineage-specific gene expression programs. Here, we show that a key function of the developmentally essential Nodal-Smads2/3 (Smad2 and Smad3) signaling pathway is to recruit the histone demethylase Jmjd3 to target genes, thereby counteracting repression by Polycomb. Smads2/3 bound to Jmjd3 and recruited it to chromatin in a manner that was de ...[more]