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SUBMITTER: Seto E
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3970420 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Seto Edward E Yoshida Minoru M
Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in biology 20140401 4
Histone deacetylases (HDACs) are enzymes that catalyze the removal of acetyl functional groups from the lysine residues of both histone and nonhistone proteins. In humans, there are 18 HDAC enzymes that use either zinc- or NAD(+)-dependent mechanisms to deacetylate acetyl lysine substrates. Although removal of histone acetyl epigenetic modification by HDACs regulates chromatin structure and transcription, deacetylation of nonhistones controls diverse cellular processes. HDAC inhibitors are alrea ...[more]