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Chromatin: a sticky silence
S Marcand1, S M Gasser, E Gilson
1Laboratoire de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire, l'Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, UMR49 CNRS/ENS, France.
Current Biology : CB
|October 1, 1996
Abstract:
Recent findings indicate that heterochromatin serves as a molecular sink for factors involved in chromatin-mediated repression of gene expression; long-range interactions that position a euchromatic gene near a heterochromatin domain influence its susceptibility to transcriptional silencing.