Craig Mizzen and Yupeng Zheng, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (IMAGE)

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Craig Mizzen and Yupeng Zheng, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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Craig Mizzen, a professor of cell and developmental biology at the University of Illinois; Yupeng Zheng, a doctoral student at the time of the study; and their colleagues discovered that the phosphorylated H1 histone protein has an important role in regulating gene activity.

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