A newly uncovered activity of a family of Polycomb-group proteins provides insight into the mechanisms by which active genes become repressed during the transition from pluripotency to restricted cell fates as stem cells undergo lineage specification.
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Abed, J., Jones, R. H3K36me3 key to Polycomb-mediated gene silencing in lineage specification. Nat Struct Mol Biol 19, 1214–1215 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/nsmb.2458
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