Preparation of soluble chromatin was carried out as previously described 6 (link). For HDAC1 and HDAC2 ChIPs the T cells were pre-treated with the crosslinker disuccinimidyl glutarate (2mM mM, AppliChem) for 25 min at room temperature. Chromatin was sonicated with the Bioruptor® Sonication System (Diagenode). For ChIP assays equal amounts of sonicated chromatin were diluted 10-fold and precipitated overnight with the following antibodies: rabbit anti-mouse HDAC1 (affinity purified polyclonal serum 38 ), mouse anti-mouse HDAC2 (Abcam ab12169), anti-H3K9ac (Millipore 07-449), C-terminal H3 (Abcam ab1791), rabbit IgG (Invitrogen), mouse IgM (Invitrogen) and CBFβ 26 (link) as a control. Chromatin/antibody complexes were isolated using Protein A or Protein G magnetic beads (Dynabeads, Invitrogen). The extracted DNA was used for qRTPCR analysis with an iCycler IQ system (Bio-Rad) and KAPA SYBR FAST qPCR MasterMix (Peqlab). In parallel, PCR reactions with 1:20 dilutions of genomic DNA (input) were carried out. Values for histone H3 modification marks were corrected to the H3 values obtained with C-terminal H3 antibody.