Symmetrical modification within a nucleosome is not required globally for histone lysine methylation

EMBO Reports

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 244-251

  Chen, Xiuzhen ^a,c   Xiong, Jun ^b,c   Xu, Mo ^b,c   Chen, She ^c   Zhu, Bing ^c  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b PEKING UNION MEDICAL COLLEGE   (China)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

epigenetic inheritance; histone; methylation; symmetry

Indexed keywords

HISTONE LYSINE METHYLTRANSFERASE;

ARTICLE; ASYMMETRIC SYNTHESIS; ENZYME MODIFICATION; HISTONE METHYLATION; HISTONE MODIFICATION; NUCLEOSOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROCESSING; WILD TYPE;

CELL LINE; HELA CELLS; HISTONE-LYSINE N-METHYLTRANSFERASE; HISTONES; HUMANS; LYSINE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METHYLATION; NUCLEOSOMES; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL;

EID: 79952281056     PISSN: 1469221X     EISSN: 14693178     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/embor.2011.6     Document Type: Article

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