The acetylation and deacetylation of histone is charged by a pair of protea se with antistatic function on each other,which are histone transacetylase and histone deacetylase.

组蛋白乙酰化和去乙酰化由一对功能相互拮抗的蛋白酶——组蛋白乙酰酶和组蛋白去乙酰化酶负责。