Review Article
Environmental Epigenetics: Crossroad between Public Health, Lifestyle, and Cancer Prevention
Table 3
Enzymes involved in epigenetic modifications.
| | Enzyme | | Function |
| | DNA methyltransferase (DNMT) | 5 | | | Histone Acethyltransferase (HAT) | 19 | Writer | | Histone methyltransferase (HMT) | 41 | |
| | Histone deacethylase (HDAC) | 13 | Eraser | | Histone demethylase (KDM) | 26 |
| | Methyl binding proteins (MBD1) | 5 | | | Proteins that recognize and react to specific modified histone residue | | Readers |
| | Total (April 2012) | >109 | |
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