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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Aug 1.
Published in final edited form as: Adv Immunol. 2013;118:37–128. doi: 10.1016/B978-0-12-407708-9.00002-9

Table 2.2.

Histone marks and the modifying enzymes that act to “write” or “erase” these marks

Histone modification Histone mark(s) “Writer” “Eraser”
Acetylation (H3, H4) H3K9ac, H3K14ac, H3K18ac Gcn5, PCAF HDAC1, HDAC2
H3K14ac, H3K18ac, H4K5ac, H4K8ac CBP, p300 HDAC1, HDAC2
Methylation H3K4me1 SET7 LSD1, JARID1B
H3K4me2, H3K4me3 MLL LSD1, JARID1A-D
H3K27me2, H3K27me3 EZH2 JMJD3, UTX
H3K9me2, H3K9me3 G9a, SUV39H LSDI, JMJD2A-D
Phosphorylation H3S10p MSK1, MSK2? unknown