Preventing the spread of repression
Thursday, August 8, 2013 - 06:30
in Biology & Nature
Scientists at the Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research have identified a novel and unexpected regulatory activity of RNA at the edge of inactive chromosomal regions. In their publication in Nature Structural and Molecular Biology they showed that non-protein coding RNAs demarcate active and inactive chromosomal regions by evicting the proteins necessary for the spreading of repressive chromatin marks.