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Variant PRC1 subunit RYBP/YAF2 forms condensate with RING1B and promotes H2AK119ub deposition

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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (31925009, U21A20195), the National Key Research and Development Program of China (2021YFA1100300). We thank Professor Yan Song from Peking University for providing pHR-mCherry-Cry2 construct.

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  1. State Key Laboratory of Respiratory Disease, Guangzhou Institutes of Biomedicine and Health, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, 510530, China

    Yanjiang Liu, Shengxiong Yang, Chenghong Yan, Juehan Wang & Hongjie Yao

  2. Department of Basic Research, Guangzhou National Laboratory, Guangzhou, 510005, China

    Yanjiang Liu, Gongcheng Hu, Shengxiong Yang & Hongjie Yao

  3. CAS Key Laboratory of Regenerative Biology, Guangzhou Institutes of Biomedicine and Health, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, 510530, China

    Yanjiang Liu, Guangjin Pan & Hongjie Yao

  4. University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China

    Yanjiang Liu, Guangjin Pan & Hongjie Yao

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Liu, Y., Hu, G., Yang, S. et al. Variant PRC1 subunit RYBP/YAF2 forms condensate with RING1B and promotes H2AK119ub deposition. Sci. China Life Sci. (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11427-023-2559-x

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