Methylation of histone H3 by Set2 in Saccharomyces cerevisiae is linked to transcriptional elongation by RNA polymerase II

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 23, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 4207-4218

  Krogan, Nevan J ^a,b   Kim, Minkyu ^c   Tong, Amy ^a,b   Golshani, Ashkan ^a   Cagney, Gerard ^a,b   Canadien, Veronica ^d   Richards, Dawn P ^d   Beattie, Bryan K ^d   Emili, Andrew ^a,b   Boone, Charles ^a,b   Shilatifard, Ali ^e   Buratowski, Stephen ^c   Greenblatt, Jack ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d Affinium Pharmaceuticals   (Canada)

^e SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZAURACIL; BETA GALACTOSIDASE; ELONGATION FACTOR; ELONGATION FACTOR BRE1; ELONGATION FACTOR CHD1; ELONGATION FACTOR LGE1; ELONGATION FACTOR SOH1; HISTONE H2A; HISTONE H2B; HISTONE H3; PROTEIN; PROTEIN PAF1; PROTEIN SET1; PROTEIN SET2; PROTEIN SET3; RNA POLYMERASE II; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CHROMATIN; DELETION MUTANT; DNA MICROARRAY; GROWTH RETARDATION; METHYLATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN METHYLATION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SYNTHETIC GENETIC ARRAY; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

BETA-GALACTOSIDASE; CHROMATIN; GENE DELETION; HISTONES; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; LYSINE; METHYLATION; METHYLTRANSFERASES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, GENETIC; PRECIPITIN TESTS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RNA POLYMERASE II; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; URACIL;

SACCHAROMYCES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0037979272     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.23.12.4207-4218.2003     Document Type: Article

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