1 Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA 2 Department of Chemistry, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA Histone post-translational modifications ...

Genes make up the blueprints and outline the process of building every living organism. To ensure that the right genes are ...

Moreover, each group of organisms, such as plants and green algae, seem to have their own variant histone code language, and ...

But how, then, do eukaryotic genes manage to escape this silencing? This is where the histone code comes into play. This code includes modifications of the histones' positively charged amino acids ...