Whew! It was quite a roller coaster ride to this paper. After seeing an abstract by John Schwabe’s group in Leicester that covered work very similar to what we’ve been hammering away at for a while, we scrambled to get a paper prepared and submitted. During the process, I contacted a number of journals and asked them what their policy was if a paper we had under review with them was scooped (in another journal) during the review process. There was a range of responses (interestingly, it’s not specified on many journal websites), but Protein Science said they’d ignore anything that comes out during the review process, so we went with them. It was a great journal experience (and heaven knows one doesn’t always have those) and the paper was accepted within a couple of days with a few minor changes – record turnaround! I can say with confidence that I’ll be going back to Protein Science, given the service and informed dialogue we had with them. So, if you want to read about our findings that The MTA1 subunit of the Nucleosome Remodeling and Deacetylase complex can recruit two copies of RBBP4/7, read on…