Histone methyltransferase activity associated with a human multiprotein complex containing the enhancer of zeste protein

Genes and Development

Volumn 16, Issue 22, 2002, Pages 2893-2905

  Kuzmichev, Andrei ^a   Nishioka, Kenichi ^a   Erdjument Bromage, Hediye ^b   Tempst, Paul ^b   Reinberg, Danny ^a  

^a RUTGERS ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Chromatin; Histone methylation; Polycomb; SET domain; Transcription repression

Indexed keywords

BINDING PROTEIN; HISTONE BINDING PROTEIN; HISTONE METHYLTRANSFERASE; METHYLTRANSFERASE; PROTEIN POLYCOMB; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ZESTE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENHANCER REGION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ASSAY; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HETEROCHROMATIN; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; METHYLATION; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN ISOLATION; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSCRIPTION TERMINATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CARRIER PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; HELA CELLS; HISTONE DEACETYLASES; HISTONE-LYSINE N-METHYLTRANSFERASE; HISTONES; HUMANS; LYSINE; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; METHYLTRANSFERASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIPROTEIN COMPLEXES; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0037111831     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.1035902     Document Type: Article

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