Ubiquitin ligase component Cul4 associates with Clr4 histone methyltransferase to assemble heterochromatin

Nature Cell Biology

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 1007-1013

  Jia, Songtao ^a   Kobayashi, Ryuji ^b   Grewal, Shiv I S ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINDING PROTEIN; CULLIN; HISTONE; METHYLTRANSFERASE; MUTANT PROTEIN; NEDD8 PROTEIN; PROTEIN CLR4; PROTEIN CUL4; UBIQUITIN PROTEIN LIGASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DAMAGE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME MECHANISM; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HETEROCHROMATIN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN DEPLETION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN TARGETING; REGULATORY MECHANISM; TANDEM REPEAT; UBIQUITINATION; YEAST;

CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; CULLIN PROTEINS; HETEROCHROMATIN; HISTONE-LYSINE N-METHYLTRANSFERASE; HISTONES; METHYLTRANSFERASES; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE PROTEINS; UBIQUITIN-PROTEIN LIGASES;

EUKARYOTA; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE;

EID: 27144554969     PISSN: 14657392     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncb1300     Document Type: Article

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