Spain, March 2 -- Project Id: 105567
Description: The role of enhancers in the control of transcriptional precision during development
Despite the stochastic nature of transcription, during embryogenesis gene expression are implemented with great spatio-temporal precision. Scientists of the EU-funded PoisedLogic project are working under the hypothesis that a set of conserved cis-regulatory elements known as poised enhancers (PEs) are essential to achieve transcriptional precision, particularly during the establishment of anterior neural identity. PEs display a unique genetic composition since, in addition to clusters of transcription factor binding sites, they also contain CpG islands. These CpG island might confer PE with privileged chr...