Methylation of histone H4 by arginine methyltransferase PRMT1 is essential in vivo for many subsequent histone modifications

Genes and Development

Volumn 19, Issue 16, 2005, Pages 1885-1893

  Huang, Suming ^a   Litt, Michael ^a,b   Felsenfeld, Gary ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DIABETES AND DIGESTIVE AND KIDNEY DISEASES   (United States)

^b BALL STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chicken globin locus; Chromatin; Histone H4 Arg3 methylation; PRMT1

Indexed keywords

HISTONE H4; METHYLTRANSFERASE; SMALL INTERFERING RNA;

ACETYLATION; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CHEMICAL REACTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPLETION; ERYTHROID CELL; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE LOCUS; METHYLATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOSOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ACETYLATION; ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINE; CHICKENS; ERYTHROID CELLS; GLOBINS; HETEROCHROMATIN; HISTONES; METHYLATION; PROTEIN-ARGININE N-METHYLTRANSFERASE; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 23944435995     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.1333905     Document Type: Article

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