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CURRENT OPINION IN STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY
Volume 35, Issue -, Pages 68-75Publisher
CURRENT BIOLOGY LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.sbi.2015.09.007
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- Searle Scholars Program
- UCSF Program for Breakthrough Biomedical Research
- Nina Ireland Program for Lung Health
- NIH [R01GM114044]
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DNA and histone lysine methylation are dynamic chemical modifications that play a crucial role in the establishment of gene expression patterns during development. Both types of genomic methylation patterns are enzymatically regulated by the opposing activities of enzymes that introduce and remove these marks, known as methylation 'writers' and 'erasers', respectively. The appropriate localization and activity of these enzymes on chromatin is, in part, regulated by chromatin 'readers', protein modules that recognize histone and DNA modifications. Such reading modules are either encoded within the same polypeptide as the catalytic domains of writers and erasers, or present in protein partners that associate with them. Here, we review recent structural, biochemical and biological studies that demonstrate that there are multiple mechanisms by which reader domains can regulate the writers and erasers of histone and DNA methylation.
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