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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Aug 1.
Published in final edited form as: FEBS Lett. 2010 Nov 11;585(13):2024–2031. doi: 10.1016/j.febslet.2010.11.010

Figure 1. Types and sites of histone tail arginine methylation.

Figure 1

(A) Arginine residues in the tails of histones can be monomethylarginines (MMA), asymmetric dimethylarginines (ADMA), and symmetric dimethylarginines (SDMA). The MMA form of arginine is generally regarded as an intermediate on its way to the dimethylated state and is not depicted here. (B) The known sites of histone H3, H4, and H2A arginine dimethylation are shown. Red denotes transcriptional repressor activity and green denotes transcriptional activator activity.