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Category:GO:0140566 ! histone reader activity
name: histone reader activity
namespace: molecular_function
def: "A chromatin adaptor activity that brings together a protein and a specific form of histone, either modified by a post-translational modification, or the unmodified form. Histone readers have roles in many processes, including in centromere function or in modulating the accessibility of cis-regulatory regions to the transcription machinery." [PMID:11498575, PMID:25688442, PMID:31082667, PMID:34726351]
synonym: "epigenetic reader" BROAD []
synonym: "histone reader" EXACT []
is_a: GO:0140463 ! chromatin-protein adaptor activity
relationship: has_part: GO:0042393 ! histone binding
relationship: occurs_in: GO:0000786 ! nucleosome
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<GOterm>GO:0140566</GOterm>
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