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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 May 27.
Published in final edited form as: J Mol Biol. 2011 Jan 25;409(1):36–46. doi: 10.1016/j.jmb.2011.01.040

Figure 1. Toolkit for modifying the chromatin template.

Figure 1

Schematic illustrating the concept that writers place post-translational modifications on histone proteins (left), erasers remove such modifications from histone proteins (middle), and readers function to interpret these covalent modifications (right) to mediate diverse downstream processes.