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    Zhao S, Chuh K, Zhang B, Dul B, Thompson R, Farrelly L, Liu X, Xu N, Xue Y, Roeder R, Maze I, Muir T, Li H. Histone H3Q5 serotonylation stabilizes H3K4 methylation and potentiates its readout. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2021;118(6). PMCID: PMC8017887
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    Balo A, Caruso A, Tao L, Tantillo D, Seyedsayamdost M, Britt D. Trapping a cross-linked lysine-tryptophan radical in the catalytic cycle of the radical SAM enzyme SuiB. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2021;118(21). PMCID: PMC8166192
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    Murray-Nerger L, Justice J, Rekapalli P, Hutton J, Cristea I. Lamin B1 acetylation slows the G1 to S cell cycle transition through inhibition of DNA repair. Nucleic Acids Res. 2021;49(4):2044–2064. PMCID: PMC7913768
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    Isley N, Endo Y, Wu Z-C, Covington B, Bushin L, Seyedsayamdost M, Boger D. Total Synthesis and Stereochemical Assignment of Streptide. J Am Chem Soc. 2019;141(43):17361–17369. PMCID: PMC6821584
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    Green R, Wang L, Hart S, Lu W, Skelding D, Burton J, Mi H, Capel A, Chen H, Lin A, Subramaniam A, Rabinowitz J, Shou W. Metabolic excretion associated with nutrient-growth dysregulation promotes the rapid evolution of an overt metabolic defect. PLoS Biol. 2020;18(8):e3000757. PMCID: PMC7470746
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    Anlas A, Nelson C. Living under Strain: How Epithelia Protect Their Genomes from Repeated Stretching. Biochemistry. 2020;59(30):2761–2763. PMID: 32702973
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    Vega M, Kastberger B, Wehrle-Haller B, Schwarzbauer J. Stimulation of Fibronectin Matrix Assembly by Lysine Acetylation. Cells. 2020;9(3). PMCID: PMC7140634
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    Murray L, Combs A, Rekapalli P, Cristea I. Methods for characterizing protein acetylation during viral infection. Methods Enzymol. 2019;626:587–620. PMCID: PMC6889803
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    Farrelly L, Thompson R, Zhao S, Lepack A, Lyu Y, Bhanu N, Zhang B, Loh Y-H, Ramakrishnan A, Vadodaria K, Heard K, Erikson G, Nakadai T, Bastle R, Lukasak B, Zebroski H, Alenina N, Bader M, Berton O, Roeder R, Molina H, Gage F, Shen L, Garcia B, Li H, Muir T, Maze I. Histone serotonylation is a permissive modification that enhances TFIID binding to H3K4me3. Nature. 2019;567(7749):535–539. PMCID: PMC6557285
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    Nacev B, Feng L, Bagert J, Lemiesz A, Gao J, Soshnev A, Kundra R, Schultz N, Muir T, Allis D. The expanding landscape of ’oncohistone’ mutations in human cancers. Nature. 2019;567(7749):473–478. PMCID: PMC6512987
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    Carabetta V, Greco T, Cristea I, Dubnau D. YfmK is an N-lysine acetyltransferase that directly acetylates the histone-like protein HBsu in . Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2019;116(9):3752–3757. PMCID: PMC6397556
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    Bos J, Muir T. A Chemical Probe for Protein Crotonylation. J Am Chem Soc. 2018;140(14):4757–4760. PMCID: PMC6505473
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    Schramma K, Seyedsayamdost M. Lysine-Tryptophan-Crosslinked Peptides Produced by Radical SAM Enzymes in Pathogenic Streptococci. ACS Chem Biol. 2017;12(4):922–927. PMID: 28191919
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    Schramma K, Bushin L, Seyedsayamdost M. Structure and biosynthesis of a macrocyclic peptide containing an unprecedented lysine-to-tryptophan crosslink. Nat Chem. 2015;7(5):431–437. PMCID: PMC4443489
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    Schramma K, Forneris C, Caruso A, Seyedsayamdost M. Mechanistic Investigations of Lysine-Tryptophan Cross-Link Formation Catalyzed by Streptococcal Radical S-Adenosylmethionine Enzymes. Biochemistry. 2018;57(4):461–468. PMID: 29320164
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    Morscher R, Ducker G, Li S, Mayer J, Gitai Z, Sperl W, Rabinowitz J. Mitochondrial translation requires folate-dependent tRNA methylation. Nature. 2018;554(7690):128–132. PMCID: PMC6020024
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    Rowland E, Snowden C, Cristea I. Protein lipoylation: an evolutionarily conserved metabolic regulator of health and disease. Curr Opin Chem Biol. 2018;42:76–85. PMCID: PMC5965299
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    Holt M, David Y, Pollock S, Tang Z, Jeon J, Kim J, Roeder R, Muir T. Identification of a functional hotspot on ubiquitin required for stimulation of methyltransferase activity on chromatin. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2015;112(33):10365–70. PMCID: PMC4547310
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    Lu C, Jain S, Hoelper D, Bechet D, Molden R, Ran L, Murphy D, Venneti S, Hameed M, Pawel B, Wunder J, Dickson B, Lundgren S, Jani K, De Jay N, Papillon-Cavanagh S, Andrulis I, Sawyer S, Grynspan D, Turcotte R, Nadaf J, Fahiminiyah S, Muir T, Majewski J, Thompson C, Chi P, Garcia B, Allis D, Jabado N, Lewis P. Histone H3K36 mutations promote sarcomagenesis through altered histone methylation landscape. Science. 2016;352(6287):844–9. PMCID: PMC4928577
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