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This is a summary of: Wragg, J. W. et al. Intra-promoter switch of transcription initiation sites in proliferation signaling-dependent RNA metabolism. Nat. Struct. Mol. Biol. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41594-023-01156-8 (2023).