To activate or not to activate: the existential dilemma of an enhancer.

Circ Res

Skaggs School of Pharmacy, UCSD, 9500 Gilman Drive 0613C, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA.

Published: March 2013

In a recent study, Watanabe et al identify a novel enhancer in the fgf10 locus that is necessary and sufficient for expression in anterior second heart field. Their results suggest a competitive mechanism in which Isl1 and Nkx2-5 bind the enhancer to activate or repress this enhancer, respectively.

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5520998PMC
http://dx.doi.org/10.1161/CIRCRESAHA.113.301133DOI Listing

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