wwme.orgMethylation been found on a variety of lysine residues in varied histones: K4 (utilizing the single-letter amino-acid code for lysine), K9, K27, K36 and K79 in histone H3, K20 in histone H4, K59 within the globular domain of histone H4 2 and K26 of histone H1B three A number of proteins accountable for the methylation of particular residues have been characterized, and all but one in every of these contains a SET domain