mAM facilitates conversion by ESET of dimethyl to trimethyl lysine 9 of histone H3 to cause transcriptional repression

Molecular Cell

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 475-487

  Wang, Hengbin ^a   An, Woojin ^b   Cao, Ru ^a   Xia, Li ^a   Erdjument Bromage, Hediye ^c   Chatton, Bruno ^d   Tempst, Paul ^c   Roeder, Robert G ^b   Zhang, Yi ^a  

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

^b ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^d INSTITUT DE GÉNÉTIQUE ET DE BIOLOGIE MOLÉCULAIRE ET CELLULAIRE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HISTONE H3; LYSINE; METHYLTRANSFERASE;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL REACTION; CHROMATIN; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ENZYME SUBSTRATE COMPLEX; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; KINETICS; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; VELOCITY; WESTERN BLOTTING;

MURINAE;

EID: 0141992115     PISSN: 10972765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2003.08.007     Document Type: Article

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