Dimerization of a viral SET protein endows its function

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

Volumn 107, Issue 43, 2010, Pages 18433-18438

  Wei, Hua ^a   Zhou, Ming Ming ^a  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Chromatin biology; Crystallography; Histone lysine methylation

Indexed keywords

ADENOSYLHOMOCYSTEINASE; HETERODIMER; HISTONE H3; HISTONE LYSINE METHYLTRANSFERASE; LYSINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRUS PROTEIN; VIRUS PROTEIN SET;

ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CHROMATIN; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DIMERIZATION; GENE SILENCING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN METHYLATION; STOICHIOMETRY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CHLORELLA; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; DIMERIZATION; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; HISTONE-LYSINE N-METHYLTRANSFERASE; HISTONES; METHYLATION; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIPROTEIN COMPLEXES; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; MUTANT PROTEINS; PARAMECIUM; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, QUATERNARY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; STATIC ELECTRICITY; VIRAL PROTEINS;

CHLORELLA VIRUS; EUKARYOTA; MAMMALIA; PARAMECIUM BURSARIA;

EID: 78649890507     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1009911107     Document Type: Article

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