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Nature Structural & Molecular Biology 15, 221–222 (1 March 2008) | doi:10.1038/nsmb0308-221

Ankyrin for methylated lysines

Michael M Brent & Ronen Marmorstein

The genetic information of eukaryotic organisms is packaged into a compacted chromatin structure containing nucleosome core particles with DNA wrapped around two copies each of the four histone proteins H2A, H2B, H3 and H4 (ref. 1).