Ash1l Methylates Lys36 of Histone H3 Independently of Transcriptional Elongation to Counteract Polycomb Silencing

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 9, Issue 11, 2013, Pages

  Miyazaki, Hitomi ^a,b   Higashimoto, Ken ^a   Yada, Yukari ^c   Endo, Takaho A ^d   Sharif, Jafar ^d   Komori, Toshiharu ^c,e   Matsuda, Masashi ^d   Koseki, Yoko ^d   Nakayama, Manabu ^f   Soejima, Hidenobu ^a   Handa, Hiroshi ^e   Koseki, Haruhiko ^b,d   Hirose, Susumu ^c   Nishioka, Kenichi ^a,b,c  

^a SAGA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GENETICS   (Japan)

^d RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences   (Japan)

^e TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^f KAZUSA DNA RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

5,6 DICHLOROBENZIMIDAZOLE RIBOSIDE; BRG1 PROTEIN; HISTONE H3; LYSINE; POLYCOMB GROUP PROTEIN; PROTEIN ASH1L; PROTEIN MOF; PROTEIN TIP60; RETINOIC ACID RECEPTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; HISTONE METHYLATION; HOX GENE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; RECEPTOR BINDING; TRANSCRIPTION ELONGATION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

ANIMALS; CHROMATIN; DICHLORORIBOFURANOSYLBENZIMIDAZOLE; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; GENE SILENCING; HISTONE ACETYLTRANSFERASES; HISTONES; HUMANS; LYSINE; METHYLATION; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; POLYCOMB-GROUP PROTEINS; POSITIVE TRANSCRIPTIONAL ELONGATION FACTOR B; RNA POLYMERASE II; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ELONGATION FACTORS;

EID: 84888249432     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1003897     Document Type: Article

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