title: New partners for HP1 in transcriptional gene silencing.
abstract: A new study in this issue of Molecular Cell (Yamane et al., 2010) demonstrates how chromatin assembly proteins HIRA/Asf1 help enforce transcriptional gene silencing in heterochromatin by bridging interactions between HP1 and histone deacetylase complexes.
authors.affiliation: Program in Gene Function and Expression, University of Massachusetts Medical School, 364 Plantation Street, LRB506, Worcester, MA 01605, USA. paul.kaufman1@umassmed.edu
authors.forename: Paul D
authors.initials: PD
authors.lastname: Kaufman