Stuxnet Recruits the Proteasome to Take Down Polycomb.
In this issue of Developmental Cell, Du et al. (2016) describe a gene named stuxnet that regulates Polycomb protein stability, thereby influencing the activity of the Polycomb-group repressive chromatin complexes.
Department of Genetics and Evolution, University of Geneva, 30 quai Ernest Ansermet, 1211 Geneva, Switzerland. Electronic address: francois.karch@unige.ch.
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