The TCM medicinals' modulabilities of histone marks, which open, condense, or poise chromatin, were then correlated with their TCM properties.
Moreover, virulence (var) genes are mostly poised and marked by a unique set of activation (H4ac) and repression (H3K9me3) marks, which are mutually exclusive to other Plasmodium housekeeping genes.
However, a key mechanism of JmjD3 and UTX appears to be their ability to remove H3K27me3 chromatin marks which anchor Polycomb repressive complexes and are often found in 'bivalent' chromatin domains thought to be in a transcriptionally 'poised' state [ 193].
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If, however, these genes are indeed expressed at moderately low levels in pluripotent cells, it would be worth investigating, whether this is due to distinct epigenetic marks on the promoters of these genes, similar to the concept of bivalent chromatin structures, which mark poised stem cell genes [66].
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Further experiments showed that active enhancers marked by H3K4me1 in ES cells are also flanked by H3K27 acetylation (H3K27ac), while regions marked by H3K27 trimethylation (H3K27me3) are associated with early developmental genes which are poised in ES cells [58,59].
In connection to this, we propose to study the expression levels in iPSCs of genes which are poised in ESCs: not or lowly expressed and marked by bivalent domains[51].
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