... expression. Reduced acetylation of amino acids in the tails of histone proteins is an epigenetic mark associated with transcriptional repression and is controlled by the HDAC (histone deacetylase) enzyme family. To date, evidence has implicated HDACs in the auto-aggressive phenotype of FLSs...

... in IBD, not all patients respond and some patients generate autoantibodies against these drugs. Hence the search for novel treatments is ongoing. HDACs (histone deacetylases) are responsible for condensation of chromatin in the nucleus of cells and inhibition of gene transcription and are often...

.... 1 To whom correspondence should be addressed (email a.bird@ed.ac.uk ). 20 6 2005 © 2005 The Biochemical Society 2005 DNA methylation epigenetic mechanism histone deacetylase methyl-CpG-binding domain protein transcriptional regulation tumorigenesis Another finding...

...R. Marmorstein The yeast Sir2 (silent information regulator-2) protein functions as an NAD + -dependent histone deacetylase to silence gene expression from the mating-type locus, tolomeres and rDNA and also promotes longevity and genome stability in response to calorie restriction. Homologues...

... complex containing the Mi-2 nucleosomal ATPase, the histone-binding protein RbAp48 and histone deacetylase and by the co-repressor complex containing SIN3, RbAp48 and histone deacetylase. Remarkably, both of these complexes also contain methyl-CpG-binding proteins. This observation provides a molecular...