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PRC2 binds active promoters and contacts nascent RNAs in embryonic stem cells

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Using in vivo RNA-protein cross-linking, it is shown that EZH2 directly binds the 5′ region of nascent RNAs transcribed from a subset of these promoters and that these binding events correlate with decreased H3K27me3.
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Polycomb repressive complex 2 (PRC2) acts as an epigenetic repressor by depositing repressive H3K27me3 marks, but how it is regulated and directed to specific genes remains unknown PRC2 is now found to bind at low levels to many gene promoters, including active ones devoid of H3K27me3, and the EZH2 catalytic subunit binds directly to nascent transcripts

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