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Figure 3.
Figure 3: Methyllysine binding by human CHD1. a, The bound-peptide structure of H3K4me3 (green), H3K4me1 (yellow), H3K4me3R2me2a (cyan) and H3K4me3T3ph (red). b, The aromatic cages from HP1 (blue) and Polycomb (cyan) with methyllysines 9 and 27. c, Fluorescence polarization peptide binding assays using human or yeast CHD1. Using H3K4me3 peptide, human CHD1 (black) binds with a K[d] of 5 M, W67L-human CHD1 (cyan) does not bind, W64L-human CHD1 (yellow) binds with a K[d] of 290 M, and budding yeast CHD1 (red) does not bind. W64L and W67L-human CHD1 do not allow binding to H3K4me1 or the unmodified peptide. d, Effect of adjacent peptide modifications. Black, H3K4me3; cyan, H3K4me3R2me2a; red, H3K4me3T3ph.

The above figure is reprinted by permission from Macmillan Publishers Ltd: Nature (2005, 438, 1181-1185) copyright 2005.