Histone Modifications and chromatin states

Histone modification play an important role in gene regulation and based on different histon modification signatures, it can be used to annotate different chromatin states. The following picture provides the relation between different histone modifications and its functions.

The above picture is retrieved from abcam. Here is the pdf version.

Here are some other review papers related to histone modification:

• Linking DNA methylation and histone modification: patterns and paradigms (2009)

• Regulation of chromatin by histone modifications (2011)

• The interplay of histone modifications – writers that read (2015)

• Histone modifications and their role in epigenetics of atopy and allergic diseases (2018)

• Epigenetic modifications of histones in cancer (2019)

• Overview of Histone Modification (2021)