Eukaryotic transcriptional machinery often shows local enrichment in dynamic clusters at sites of high expression. A study of zebrafish embryos shows that such clusters can fine-tune the timing of zygotic genome activation by sequestering a component required for productive transcription, thus limiting its availability to other genes.
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Stec, N., Klosin, A. Transcriptional bodies manage tight resources. Nat Cell Biol 26, 512–513 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41556-024-01395-x
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