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Mutations in the chromatin-remodeling protein ATRX cause alpha thalassaemia and mental retardation, but the severity of the disorder is independent of the specific mutation. In this issue of Cell, Law et al. (2010) demonstrate that ATRX alters gene expression by binding to G-rich tandem repeats, and the degree of transcriptional silencing caused by ATRX mutations correlates with the number of repeats.
Recent mapping of nucleosome positioning has added a new dimension to the study of transcriptional regulation. Hartley and Madhani (2009) now demonstrate the power of this approach and show that a chromatin regulator alters nucleosome positioning in the promoters of a large number of genes in the budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae.
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