TABLE 1. Histone modifications involved in aging and apoptotic processes in yeast.

The implications listed are referring to the respective histone modifications. The listed writers and erasers may have impact on other histone modifications not related to cell death as well and the modifiers may have targets other than the histones, which may implicate them in other cell death pathways.

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