Saccharomyces cerevisiae Set1 p is a methyltransferase specific for lysine 4 of histone H3 and is required for efficient gene expression

Yeast

Volumn 20, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 827-835

  Boa, Simon ^a   Coert, Claudette ^a   Patterton, Hugh G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Chromatin; Histone; MALDI; Methylation; Methyltransferase; Microarray; Transcription; Yeast

Indexed keywords

DNA BINDING PROTEIN; FUNGAL RNA; HISTONE; LYSINE; METHYLTRANSFERASE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEIN; SET1 PROTEIN, S CEREVISIAE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; HISTONE H3; LYSINE DERIVATIVE; PROTEIN MAD2; PROTEIN SET1P; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA MICROARRAY; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; METHYLATION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNGAL STRAIN; GENE CLUSTER; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN METHYLATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; HISTONES; LYSINE; METHYLATION; METHYLTRANSFERASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; RNA, FUNGAL; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EUKARYOTA; SACCHAROMYCES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0038601738     PISSN: 0749503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/yea.995     Document Type: Article

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