Acknowledgments We thank Drs XY Fu, CM Horvath, AN Imbalzano, HB Zhang, S Cadelwood and K Shuai for kindly providing plasmids, antibodies and chemicals used in this work. We thank Dr Robert A Casero, Jr of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine for his critical reading of the manuscript, and Dr Weimin Zhong of the Yale University for his contribution to the work. This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (90408007, 30871382 and 30721063), the National Basic Research Program of China (973 Program) (2005CB522405), the National Key Scientific Program (2011CB964902) and Special Funds of State Key Laboratories (2060204).
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