Congratulations to the team members for this new article about “Species-specific regulation of XIST by the JPX/FTX orthologs” published in Nucleic Acids Research (Feb 2023).

Graphical abstract
In contrast to the mouse, human JPX regulates XIST through mechanisms that are independent of JPX mature transcript, but which involve JPX transcription.
© The Author(s) 2023. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Nucleic Acids Research.
Species-specific regulation of XIST by the JPX/FTX orthologs.
Rosspopoff O, Cazottes E, Huret C, Loda A, Collier AJ, Casanova M, Rugg-Gunn PJ, Heard E, Ouimette JF, Rougeulle C. Nucleic Acids Res. 2023 Feb 2:gkad029. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkad029.
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