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Nex experimental evidence in support of our approach

Posted by ivandespneus on 18 Feb 2010 at 10:13 GMT

Our work suggests the formation of specialized transcription factories to be a self-organized process driven by the bridging of distal co-regulated genes via the binding of transcription factors. The binding can be direct (bivalent transcription factors) or can involve intermediate large protein complexes, such as the transcription factories themselves.

In this respect, the experimental results recently published in the article "Preferential associations between co-regulated genes reveal a transcriptional interactome in erythroid cells" by Schoenfelder et al. in Nature Genetics, 42, 53-61 (2010) give fresh evidence for the relevance of our approach.

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