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. 2006 Apr 21;125(2):213-7.
doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2006.04.003.

Histone lysine demethylases and their impact on epigenetics

Patrick Trojer  1 , Danny Reinberg
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Histone lysine demethylases and their impact on epigenetics

Patrick Trojer et al. Cell. .
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Abstract

Methylation marks on the lysine residues of histone proteins are thought to contribute to epigenetic phenomena in part because of their apparent irreversibility. Will this view change with the recent discovery of histone lysine demethylases that reversibly remove methyl marks?

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