Understanding the words of chromatin regulation.

Wu, Jiang I; Lessard, Julie; Crabtree, Gerald R · Cell · 2009

review · Level V

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Abstract

Recent studies indicate that chromatin regulatory complexes produce biological specificity in the way that letters produce meanings by combinations into words. Combinatorial assembly of chromatin regulatory complexes may be critical for maximizing the information content provided by arrays of histone modifications.

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