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Pioneering the chromatin landscape

Nature Genetics volume 50, pages 167–169 (2018)Cite this article

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New genomic analyses indicate that pioneer transcription factors can sample a diverse repertoire of common binding sites among different cell types and become enriched where they cooperate with other factors specific to each cell. Pioneer-factor binding is mechanistically separate from, and is necessary for, subsequent phenomena of chromatin opening and epigenetic memory in vivo.

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Fig. 1: Dynamics of pioneer-factor activity.

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  1. Institute for Regenerative Medicine, Epigenetics Program, Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania Smilow Center for Translational Research, Philadelphia, PA, USA

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