Nature Communications (Apr 2019)

Dynamic control of enhancer activity drives stage-specific gene expression during flower morphogenesis

  • Wenhao Yan,
  • Dijun Chen,
  • Julia Schumacher,
  • Diego Durantini,
  • Julia Engelhorn,
  • Ming Chen,
  • Cristel C. Carles,
  • Kerstin Kaufmann

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-09513-2
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 16

Abstract

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Enhancer elements can control spatial and temporal patterns of gene expression. Here the authors profile chromatin accessibility, histone modifications and gene expression during Arabidopsis flower development providing evidence for sets of distal enhancers acting in a highly stage-specific manner.