Transcription factor Ap2δ associates with Ash2l and ALR, a trithorax family histone methyltransferase, to activate Hoxc8 transcription

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

Volumn 105, Issue 21, 2008, Pages 7472-7477

  Tan, Cheryl C ^a   Sindhu, K V ^a   Li, Side ^a   Nishio, Hitomi ^a   Stoller, Jason Z ^b,c   Oishi, Kimihiko ^a   Puttreddy, Sahitya ^a   Lee, Tamara J ^a   Epstein, Jonathan A ^b   Walsh, Martin J ^a   Gelb, Bruce D ^a  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Development; Methylation

Indexed keywords

HISTONE H3; HISTONE METHYLTRANSFERASE; MIXED LINEAGE LEUKEMIA PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR AP 2; ASH2L PROTEIN, MOUSE; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; HISTONE; HISTONE LYSINE METHYLTRANSFERASE; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; HOXC8 PROTEIN, MOUSE; MLL2 PROTEIN, MOUSE; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; TCFAP2D PROTEIN, MOUSE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; DNA BINDING MOTIF; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN INTERACTION; ANIMAL; CELL LINE; GENETICS; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MOUSE; TRANSACTIVATION; TWO HYBRID SYSTEM;

ANIMALS; CELL LINE; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; HISTONE-LYSINE N-METHYLTRANSFERASE; HISTONES; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; MICE; MYELOID-LYMPHOID LEUKEMIA PROTEIN; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; TRANS-ACTIVATION (GENETICS); TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR AP-2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TWO-HYBRID SYSTEM TECHNIQUES;

EID: 44949150107     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0711896105     Document Type: Article

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