Comprehensive new map details dynamics of gene activity during embryonic development
Friday, November 1, 2013 - 09:00
in Biology & Nature
Embryonic development involves the tightly coordinated activity of thousands of genes, each switched on at a specific time and place in the growing organism under the control of regulatory DNA sequences called promoters. An international team of researchers including Piero Carninci from the RIKEN Center for Life Science Technologies has now produced the first vertebrate 'promoterome', or genome-wide map of how promoter usage changes during development.