Unsafe SETs: Histone lysine methyltransferases and cancer

Trends in Biochemical Sciences

Volumn 27, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 396-402

  Schneider, Robert ^a   Bannister, Andrew J ^a   Kouzarides, Tony ^a  

^a IMPERIAL CANCER RESEARCH FUND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HISTONE LYSINE METHYLTRANSFERASE; PROTEIN;

CANCER; CARCINOGENESIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENZYME ANALYSIS; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REVIEW;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CARRIER PROTEINS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; HISTONE-LYSINE N-METHYLTRANSFERASE; HUMANS; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; METHYLTRANSFERASES; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEOPLASMS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RETINOBLASTOMA PROTEIN; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 0036683308     PISSN: 09680004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0968-0004(02)02141-2     Document Type: Review

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