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PLANT EPIGENETICS

Plant H3K27me3 has finally found its readers

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Two new studies show that a plant-specific complex composed of EBS, or its homolog SHL, and EMF1 acts as a chromatin reader within the Polycomb pathway and effects gene repression. Two domains of EBS and SHL bind distinct chromatin modifications that are associated with active and repressed chromatin.

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Fig. 1: EBS and SHL effect Polycomb-mediated gene silencing by binding to H3K27me3 and H3K4me2 or H3K4me3.

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Krause, K., Turck, F. Plant H3K27me3 has finally found its readers. Nat Genet 50, 1206–1208 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41588-018-0201-1

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