Rebalancing gene haploinsufficiency in vivo by targeting chromatin

Deficit in transcription factor Tbx1 causes heart defects in humans and mice. Here the authors show that Tbx1 regulates gene expression by recruiting histone methyltransferases that affect chromatin marks, and that a drug inhibiting histone demethylation ameliorates the cardiovascular phenotype in T...

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Main Authors: Filomena Gabriella Fulcoli, Monica Franzese, Xiangyang Liu, Zhen Zhang, Claudia Angelini, Antonio Baldini
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2016-06-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms11688