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Nature Structural & Molecular Biology 14, 1058 - 1060 (2007)
doi:10.1038/nsmb1107-1058

Histone H3 Arg2 methylation provides alternative directions for COMPASS

Robert J Klose1 & Yi Zhang2

  1. Robert J. Klose is in the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Oxford, Oxford, OX1 3QU, UK,
    e-mail: rob.klose@bioch.ox.ac.uk
  2. Yi Zhang is in the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Centre, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 27599-7295, USA.
    e-mail: yi_zhang@med.unc.edu


Post-translational modification of histones can profoundly affect chromatin structure and function. The discovery that histone H3 Arg2 methylation is a widespread silencing modification that inhibits histone H3 Lys4 trimethylation extends our understanding of how active and silenced chromatin states are maintained.

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