The Drosophila P68 RNA helicase regulates transcriptional deactivation by promoting RNA release from chromatin.

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Terminating a gene's activity requires that pre-existing transcripts be matured or destroyed and that the local chromatin structure be returned to an inactive configuration. Here we show that the Drosophila homolog of the mammalian P68 RNA helicase plays a novel role in RNA export and gene deactivation. p68 mutations phenotypically resemble mutations in small bristles (sbr), the Drosophila homolog of the human...

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