A COMPASS in the voyage of defining the role of trithorax/MLL-containing complexes: Linking leukemogensis to covalent modifications of chromatin

Journal of Cellular Biochemistry

Volumn 95, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 429-436

  Tenney, Kristen ^a   Shilatifard, Ali ^a,b  

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

^b SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Histone methylation; Leukemia; MLL; Set domain; Transcription

Indexed keywords

HISTONE; HISTONE METHYLTRANSFERASE; HYBRID PROTEIN; LYSINE; METHYLTRANSFERASE; MIXED LINEAGE LEUKEMIA PROTEIN; PROTEIN COMPASS; PROTEIN SET1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; MLL PROTEIN, HUMAN; MULTIPROTEIN COMPLEX; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; CHROMOSOME 11; CHROMOSOME REARRANGEMENT; CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION; COMPLEX FORMATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE REPRESSION; HEMATOLOGIC MALIGNANCY; LEUKEMOGENESIS; LYMPHATIC SYSTEM TUMOR; METHYLATION; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOSOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; ADULT; ANIMAL; CHILD; CHROMATIN; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; HUMAN; LEUKEMIA; METABOLISM; PROTO ONCOGENE;

ADULT; ANIMALS; CHILD; CHROMATIN; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; HUMANS; LEUKEMIA; METHYLATION; MULTIPROTEIN COMPLEXES; MYELOID-LYMPHOID LEUKEMIA PROTEIN; PROTO-ONCOGENES; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 22544468602     PISSN: 07302312     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jcb.20421     Document Type: Review

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