This Week in Nature

Apr 15, 2010

In an advance, online publication of Nature this week, researchers describe the widespread transcription they observed at neuronal activity-regulated enhancers in their genome-wide sequencing experiment. The team observed that CBP, a transcriptional co-activator, bound to around 12,000 neuronal activity-regulated enhancers; they suggest that CBP may function to recruit RNA polymerase II.

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