The SET-domain protein superfamily: Protein lysine methyltransferases

Genome Biology

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2005, Pages

  Dillon, Shane C ^a   Zhang, Xing ^b   Trievel, Raymond C ^c   Cheng, Xiaodong ^b  

^a WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HISTONE; LYSINE; LYSINE METHYLTRANSFERASE; METHYLTRANSFERASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CHROMATIN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LOCATION; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC ORGANIZATION; HUMAN; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN METHYLATION; REVIEW; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

ANIMALS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HISTONE-LYSINE N-METHYLTRANSFERASE; HUMANS; METHYLATION; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY;

EID: 23944509075     PISSN: 14656906     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/gb-2005-6-8-227     Document Type: Review

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