SET domain protein lysine methyltransferases: Structure, specificity and catalysis

Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences

Volumn 63, Issue 23, 2006, Pages 2755-2763

  Qian, C ^a   Zhou, M M ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chromatin modifications; Histone lysine methylation; SET domain; Structure function

Indexed keywords

CHROMOSOME PROTEIN; HISTONE LYSINE METHYLTRANSFERASE; S ADENOSYLHOMOCYSTEINE;

CATALYSIS; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; EPIGENETICS; EUKARYOTE; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE CONTROL; GENE SILENCING; METHYLATION; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; CATALYSIS; HISTONE-LYSINE N-METHYLTRANSFERASE; HISTONES; HUMANS; METHYLATION; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; S-ADENOSYLHOMOCYSTEINE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 33845487512     PISSN: 1420682X     EISSN: 15691632     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00018-006-6274-5     Document Type: Review

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