Chromatin fine structure of the c-MYC insulator element/DNase I-hypersensitive site I is not preserved during mitosis

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During mitosis in higher eukaryotic cells, transcription is silenced and transcription complexes are absent from promoters in the condensed chromosomes; however, epigenetic information concerning the pattern of expressed and silent genes must be preserved.

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