Nuclear pore proteins (Nups) interact with chromosomes to regulate gene expression and chromatin structure. A new study by Franks and colleagues (pp. 2222-2234) provides new mechanistic insight into the molecular basis by which Nup98 promotes gene activation in normal hematopoietic cells and how that process is altered by translocations to cause excess expression of developmental genes in leukemia.
Keywords: Nup98; Set1A; Wdr82; acute myeloid leukemia; histone 3 Lys4 trimethylation; transcription.
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