Histone-modifying proteins, not histones, remain associated with DNA through replication

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A study of Drosophila embryos found that parental methylated histones are not transferred to daughter DNA. Rather, after DNA replication, new nucleosomes are assembled from newly synthesized unmodified histones.

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