title: Epigenetics gets sweeter: O-GlcNAc joins the "histone code".
abstract: O-GlcNAcylation has now been added to the growing list of histone modifications making up the multifaceted "histone-code" (Sakabe et al., 2010). The sites of O-GlcNAc-histone modification hint at a role in chromatin remodeling, thus adding to mounting evidence that O-GlcNAc cycling sits atop a robust regulatory network maintaining higher-order chromatin structure and epigenetic memory.
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Biology, NIDDK, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892-0851, USA. jah@helix.nih.gov
authors.forename: John A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Hanover