The heat supplied by spicy meals is referred to in dietary language as thermogenic. The ProPoints system is less complicated to follow for some than calorie counting and fewer restrictive than different plans.

The exception to the rule is the DOT1 family, members of which methylate K79 within the globular region of histone H3 and which are structurally not related to SET-area proteins four - 6 Current work suggests that SET-area-containing proteins methylate a number of proteins along with histones (see later)