Maintenance of epigenetic landscape requires CIZ1 and is corrupted in differentiated fibroblasts in long-term culture

The inactive X chromosome (Xi) is a model for establishment and maintenance of repressed chromatin and the function of polycomb repressive complexes. Here the authors show that Xi transiently relocates from the nuclear periphery during replication in a CIZ1-dependent manner, which plays a role in ma...

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Main Authors: Emma R. Stewart, Robert M. L. Turner, Katherine Newling, Rebeca Ridings-Figueroa, Victoria Scott, Peter D. Ashton, Justin F. X. Ainscough, Dawn Coverley
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2019-01-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-08072-2