The fission yeast spSet1p is a histone H3-K4 methyltransferase that functions in telomere maintenance and DNA repair in an ATM kinase Rad3-dependent pathway

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 326, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 1081-1094

  Kanoh, Junko ^a   Francesconi, Stefania ^a   Collura, Ada ^b   Schramke, Vera ^c   Ishikawa, Fuyuki ^a   Baldacci, Giuseppe ^b   Géli, Vincent ^c  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b INSTITUT CURIE   (France)

^c CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Chromatin; DNA repair; Methylation; Set domain; Telomeres

Indexed keywords

ATM PROTEIN; CHECKPOINT KINASE RAD3; HISTONE H3; HISTONE LYSINE METHYLTRANSFERASE; HYDROXYUREA; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE; PROTEIN; PROTEIN RAD26; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CELL MUTANT; CELL STRAIN; CENTROMERE; CHROMATIN; CHROMOSOME SIZE; CHROMOSOME STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELETION MUTANT; DNA DAMAGE; DNA REPAIR; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE CONTROL; GENE DELETION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE INDUCTION; GENE REPLICATION; GENE REPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; HUMAN; METHYLATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN MOTIF; RADIOSENSITIVITY; RADIOSENSITIZATION; RNA TRANSLATION; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; TELOMERE; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSLATION REGULATION; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; WILD TYPE; YEAST;

SACCHAROMYCETALES; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE;

EID: 0037470569     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-2836(03)00030-5     Document Type: Article

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