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Enzyme–chromatin complex visualized

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The structure of an enzyme that is bound to a nucleosome — a protein complex around which DNA is wrapped — reveals how contacts between the two orient the enzyme so that it can modify a specific amino-acid residue. See Article p.591

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Figure 1: Enzyme–nucleosome contacts dictate substrate specificity.

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  1. Jürg Müller is at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Laboratory of Chromatin Biology, Martinsried 82152, Germany.,

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  2. Christoph W. Müller is at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Structural and Computational Biology Unit, Heidelberg 69117, Germany.,

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