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by pfisherman 622 days ago
Not sure we know exactly how valproic acid works. HDACs are like master regulators. Histone acylation is kind of like the opposite of DNA methylation. It is a marker of active transcription. So messing around with these can lead to big epigenetic changes (i.e. state of the genome) in impacted cells / tissues.