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New Study Unveils Epigenetic ‘Traffic Lights’ Controlling Stop and Go for Gene Activity

Extended Data Fig. 11
H3K4me3 facilitates the recruitment of factors regulating the release of paused RNAPII at the +1 nucleosome. The H3K4me3 at promoter regions is highly dynamic, and it is maintained by an equilibrium between SET1/COMPASS complexes and KDM5 demethylases at highly transcribed genes. The rapid turnover of H3K4me3 ensures that the pausing step is a highly regulated process by Integrator Complex Subunit 11 (INTS11), where an increase in H3K4me3 leads to a decrease in RNAPII pausing and acute depletion leads to an increase RNAPII pausing.

A major new study in the journal Nature reveals a ‘traffic light’ mechanism controlling genetic activity within cells – a system which could potentially be targeted by cancer drugs already in development...

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