Brendan Maher | Jan 26, 2003 | 2 min read
5-Prime | The Histone Code Courtesy of IMP/TKadletz What is the histone code? Different chemical marks, such as acetylation, methylation, or phosphorylation, are made to numerous residues on the N-terminal tails of histone proteins. Some posit that they act as readable and specific landing pads for proteins that control chromatin modeling and transcriptional regulation. The marks appear to be clustered in different regulatory groups signifying "on" and "off" portions of the genome, and som