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Our new #preprint by @phdanmoore has:
✅ A KRAB Zinc Finger (the SCAN domain-containing kind)
✅ #transposon sequences (the SINE kind)
✅ #epigenetic regulation (the #enhancer kind)
✅ lineage specification (the neural kind)
❌ and NO heterochromatin!
biorxiv.org/content/10.110…
✅ A KRAB Zinc Finger (the SCAN domain-containing kind)
✅ #transposon sequences (the SINE kind)
✅ #epigenetic regulation (the #enhancer kind)
✅ lineage specification (the neural kind)
❌ and NO heterochromatin!
biorxiv.org/content/10.110…
www.biorxiv.org The KRAB-Zinc Finger protein ZKSCAN3 represses enhancers via embedded retrotransposons Gene cis -regulatory sequences are increasingly recognised as containing “domesticated” transposable elements that impact their function. The KRAB Zinc Finger Protein (KZFP) family of transcription... 
