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Nature 441, 349-353 (19 April 2006) | doi:10.1038/nature04733;

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Polycomb complexes repress developmental regulators in murine embryonic stem cells

The mechanisms by which embryonic stem (ES) cells self-renew while maintaining the ability to differentiate into virtually all adult cell types are not well understood. Polycomb group (PcG) proteins are transcriptional repressors that help to maintain cellular identity during metazoan development by epigenetic modification of chromatin structure.

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