A tale of histone modifications
Open Access
- 1 January 2001
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Springer Nature in Genome Biology
Abstract
The modification of chromatin structure is important for a number of nuclear functions, exemplified by the regulation of transcription. This review discusses recent studies of covalent histone modifications and the enzymatic machines that generate them.Keywords
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