Structure and function of histone methylation binding proteinsThis paper is one of a selection of papers published in this Special Issue, entitled CSBMCB’s 51st Annual Meeting – Epigenetics and Chromatin Dynamics, and has undergone the Journal’s usual peer review process.

SMN Deficiency Causes Tissue-Specific Perturbations in the Repertoire of snRNAs and Widespread Defects in Splicing

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The PHD domain of the sea urchin RAG2 homolog, SpRAG2L, recognizes dimethylated lysine 4 in histone H3 tails

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The autoimmune regulator PHD finger binds to non-methylated histone H3K4 to activate gene expression

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Molecular Basis of Histone H3K4me3 Recognition by ING4

(2008) Alicia Palacios et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Histone H3K4me3 Binding Is Required for the DNA Repair and Apoptotic Activities of ING1 Tumor Suppressor

(2008) P.V. Peña et al.   JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Novel Structural and Functional Mode of a Knot Essential for RNA Binding Activity of the Esa1 Presumed Chromodomain

(2008) Hideaki Shimojo et al.   JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Decoding of Methylated Histone H3 Tail by the Pygo-BCL9 Wnt Signaling Complex

(2008) Marc Fiedler et al.   MOLECULAR CELL

Structural insights into human KAP1 PHD finger–bromodomain and its role in gene silencing

(2008) Lei Zeng et al.   NATURE STRUCTURAL & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Histone H4 lysine 20 monomethylation promotes transcriptional repression by L3MBTL1

(2008) N Kalakonda et al.   ONCOGENE