학술논문
Do protein motifs read the histone code?
Document Type
Academic Journal
Source
BioEssays. Feb 2005, Vol. 27 Issue 2, p164, 12 p.
Subject
Language
English
ISSN
0265-9247
Abstract
The existence of different patterns of chemical modifications like acetylation, methylation and others of the histone tails led to the histone code hypothesis some years ago. According to this hypothesis, these modifications would provide binding sites for proteins that can change the chromatin state to either active or repressed.