Table 1.
The reversible histone post-translational modifications
| Amino acid residue [single-letter code] | Modification | References |
|---|---|---|
| Lysine [K] | Acetylation | Kouzarides (2007) |
| Mono-, di-, and trimethylation | ||
| Ubiquitination | Wilkinson (2000) | |
| Biotinylation | Ballard et al. (2002) | |
| Sumoylation | Iñiguez-Lluhí (2006) | |
| Arginine [R] | Symmetric mono- and di-methylation asymmetric mono- and di-methylation | Chang et al. (2007) |
| Mono-and poly-ADP-ribosylation | Koch-Nolte et al. (2008) | |
| Serine [S] | Phosphorylation | Bannister and Kouzarides (2011) |
| Tyrosine [Y] | Phosphorylation | |
| Threonine [T] | Phosphorylation | |
| Glutamate [E] | Mono- and poly-ADP-ribosylation | Koch-Nolte et al. (2008) |
| Proline [P] | Isomerization | Iñiguez-Lluhí (2006) |