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Transcriptional bodies manage tight resources

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Eukaryotic transcriptional machinery often shows local enrichment in dynamic clusters at sites of high expression. A study of zebrafish embryos shows that such clusters can fine-tune the timing of zygotic genome activation by sequestering a component required for productive transcription, thus limiting its availability to other genes.

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Fig. 1: The high transcriptional activity at the miR430 locus sequesters CDK9, preventing it from untimely activation of poised genes.

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    Natalia Stec & Adam Klosin

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