Histone-modifying enzymes: encrypting an enigmatic epigenetic code

Current Opinion in Structural Biology

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 753-760

  Couture, Jean François ^a   Trievel, Raymond C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HISTONE; HISTONE ACETYLTRANSFERASE GCN5; HISTONE LYSINE METHYLTRANSFERASE; METHYLTRANSFERASE;

ENZYME MODIFICATION; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ENZYME STRUCTURE; GENETIC CODE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; CATALYTIC DOMAIN; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; HISTONE ACETYLTRANSFERASES; HISTONE-LYSINE N-METHYLTRANSFERASE; HISTONES; HUMANS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; TETRAHYMENA THERMOPHILA;

EID: 34247493994     PISSN: 0959440X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sbi.2006.10.002     Document Type: Review

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