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Talk among histones

Using chemically assembled ubiquitylated histone H2B, researchers demonstrate that direct cross-talk results in methylation of a lysine on another histone.

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Kaganman, I. Talk among histones. Nat Methods 5, 662–663 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmeth0808-662b

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