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Enhancer‐derived RNAs: ‘spicing up’ transcription programs
Author(s) -
Redmond Aisling M,
Carroll Jason S
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
the embo journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 7.484
H-Index - 392
eISSN - 1460-2075
pISSN - 0261-4189
DOI - 10.1038/emboj.2013.151
Subject(s) - biology , enhancer , transcription (linguistics) , computational biology , genetics , transcription factor , gene , linguistics , philosophy
Functional roles of enhancer‐derived RNAs (eRNAs) have so far been enigmatic. Two studies, recently published in Nature , establish the importance of eRNA transcription and reveal unexpected specificity in the regulation of adjacent mRNAs.