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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: Chem Soc Rev. 2008 May 8;37(7):1402–1413. doi: 10.1039/b703830p

Fig. 1.

Fig. 1

The acetylation state of lysine amino acids are governed by the equilibrium activities of acetyltransferase enzymes and deacetylase enzymes. In the context of gene expression, the lysine residues of histone proteins are key substrates for acetylation.