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A finger on the mark

Chromatin, the protein wrapping of the genome, harbours information about how the genes it contains are to be regulated. Are we any closer to deciphering these encoded instructions?

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Figure 1: Recruitment of chromatin regulators by nucleosomes.

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Becker, P. A finger on the mark. Nature 442, 31–32 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1038/442031a

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