Analysis of the Substrate Specificity of the Dim-5 Histone Lysine Methyltransferase Using Peptide Arrays

Chemistry and Biology

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 5-11

  Rathert, Philipp ^a   Zhang, Xing ^b   Freund, Christian ^c   Cheng, Xiaodong ^b   Jeltsch, Albert ^a  

^a JACOBS UNIVERSITY BREMEN   (Germany)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c LEIBNIZ INSTITUT FÜR MOLEKULARE PHARMAKOLOGIE   (Germany)

Author keywords

CHEMBIO; PROTEINS

Indexed keywords

HISTONE; HISTONE LYSINE METHYLTRANSFERASE; PEPTIDE; PEPTIDE LIBRARY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ENZYMOLOGY; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; METHYLATION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATION; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN MICROARRAY; SYNTHESIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; HISTONE-LYSINE N-METHYLTRANSFERASE; HISTONES; METHYLATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; PEPTIDE LIBRARY; PEPTIDES; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN ARRAY ANALYSIS; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

EID: 38349049503     PISSN: 10745521     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chembiol.2007.11.013     Document Type: Article

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