The MUT9p kinase phosphorylates histone H3 threonine 3 and is necessary for heritable epigenetic silencing in Chlamydomonas

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 105, Issue 17, 2008, Pages 6486-6491

  Casas Mollano, J Armando ^a   Jeong, Byeong Ryool ^a   Xu, Jianping ^a   Moriyama, Hideaki ^b   Cerutti, Heriberto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

Gene silencing; Histone phosphorylation

Indexed keywords

HISTONE H2A; HISTONE H3; MUT9P KINASE; PROTEIN KINASE; THREONINE; HISTONE; PROTEIN SERINE THREONINE KINASE;

ARTICLE; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE REPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; TRANSGENE; TRANSPOSON; ANIMAL; CHLAMYDOMONAS; DNA DAMAGE; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; INHERITANCE; METABOLISM; METHYLATION; MUTATION; PHOSPHORYLATION;

CHLAMYDOMONAS; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; EUKARYOTA;

ANIMALS; CHLAMYDOMONAS; DNA DAMAGE; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GENE SILENCING; HISTONES; INHERITANCE PATTERNS; METHYLATION; MUTATION; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; THREONINE; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSGENES;

EID: 44049084243     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0711310105     Document Type: Article

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