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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Feb 10.
Published in final edited form as: Connect Tissue Res. 2016 Jun 2;58(1):116–141. doi: 10.1080/03008207.2016.1194406

Figure 1.

Figure 1

HOTAIR function in regulating HOXD gene expression. Expressed from the HOXC locus, HOTAIR binds to SUZ12 and EZH2, part of the PRC2 complex. HOTAIR acts in trans by recruiting the PRC2 complex to the HOXD locus and silences the locus by establishing H3K27me3 marks (30).