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PHD fingers in human diseases: disorders arising from misinterpreting epigenetic marks.
Mutation research - 1 Dec 2008
Baker Lindsey A, Allis C David, Wang Gang G
Abstract excerpt
Histone covalent modifications regulate many, if not all, DNA-templated processes, including gene expression and DNA damage response. The biological consequences of histone modifications are mediated partially by evolutionarily conserved "reader/effector" modules that bind to histone marks in a modification- and context-specific fashion and subsequently enact chromatin changes or recruit other proteins to do so....
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