DNA methylation is one of several epigenetic ... DNA also form complexes with the proteins involved in deacetylation of histones. Therefore, when DNA is methylated, nearby histones are ...

Methylation is one of the more prevalent chemical modifications that histones undergo. Researchers have previously found that the methylation of one particular location, lysine-4, on histone H3 ...

Over the course of pregnancy, levels of methylation on these histones fade in a slow and steady way, eventually reaching low enough levels that the nearby genes—related to pregnancy events like ...

which confirms the importance of methylation for maintaining long-term memory. Another important epigenetic modification is histone acetylation. Histones are proteins that help DNA fold. Acetylation ...

Modifying histones can affect transcription by altering the structure ... represent a more complex and diverse mechanism to affect gene transcription than DNA methylation. In fact, one effect of DNA ...

Future proteomics research is heading towards interrogation of histones from defined genomic loci. This will require continued improvements in mass spectrometry instrumentation paired with ...