Chlamydial SET domain protein functions as a histone methyltransferase

Microbiology

Volumn 153, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 585-592

  Murata, Masayuki ^a   Azuma, Yoshinao ^a   Miura, Koshiro ^a,b,c   Rahman, Mohd Akhlakur ^a   Matsutani, Minenosuke ^a   Aoyama, Masahiro ^a   Suzuki, Harumi ^a   Sugi, Kazuro ^b   Shirai, Mutsunori ^a  

^a YAMAGUCHI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL SANYO HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^c OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HISTONE H1; HISTONE HC1; HISTONE HC2; HISTONE METHYLTRANSFERASE; SET DOMAIN PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL MATURATION; CHLAMYDIASIS; CHLAMYDOPHILA PNEUMONIAE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN METHYLATION; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; RODENT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CELL LINE; CHLAMYDOPHILA PNEUMONIAE; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; HISTONE-LYSINE N-METHYLTRANSFERASE; HISTONES; HUMANS; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; TWO-HYBRID SYSTEM TECHNIQUES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CHLAMYDOPHILA PNEUMONIAE; EUKARYOTA; MURINAE;

EID: 33847234684     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.29213-0     Document Type: Article

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