Catherine A Musselman et al.
Biochimica et biophysica acta, 1839(8), 686-693 (2014-04-15)
Lysine methylation is the most versatile covalent posttranslational modification (PTM) found in histones and non-histone proteins. Over the past decade a number of methyllysine-specific readers have been discovered and their interactions with histone tails have been structurally and biochemically characterized.