Elsevier, Developmental Cell, 4(15), p. 489-490, 2008
DOI: 10.1016/j.devcel.2008.09.013
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CTCF plays diverse roles in the regulation of eukaryotic genes. A new study by Lefevre et al. in a recent issue of Molecular Cell reveals a novel mechanism in which noncoding RNA transcription and nucleosome repositioning evicts CTCF from a regulatory element to facilitate induction of a nearby gene.