Structural basis for the product specificity of histone lysine methyltransferases

Molecular Cell

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 177-185

  Zhang, Xing ^a   Yang, Zhe ^a   Khan, Seema I ^a   Horton, John R ^a   Tamaru, Hisashi ^b   Selker, Eric U ^b   Cheng, Xiaodong ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYSTEINE; HISTONE LYSINE METHYLTRANSFERASE; NITROGEN; S ADENOSYLHOMOCYSTEINE; ZINC;

ARTICLE; ENZYME STRUCTURE; HYBRID; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN TARGETING;

EID: 0042164227     PISSN: 10972765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1097-2765(03)00224-7     Document Type: Article

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