Structural basis for specific binding of polycomb chromodomain to histone H3 methylated at Lys 27

Genes and Development

Volumn 17, Issue 15, 2003, Pages 1823-1828

  Min, Jinrong ^a   Zhang, Yi ^b   Xu, Rui Ming ^a  

^a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Cold Spring Harbor   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Chromatin; Chromodomain; Histone code; Histone methylation; Polycomb

Indexed keywords

HISTONE H3; LYSINE; PROTEIN; PROTEIN POLYCOMB; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CHROMATIN; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DIMERIZATION; HETEROCHROMATIN; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN METHYLATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CHROMATIN; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE; HETEROCHROMATIN; HISTONES; LYSINE; METHYLATION; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

EID: 0041624288     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.269603     Document Type: Article

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