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A trithorax-group complex purified from Saccharomyces cerevisiae is required for methylation of histone H3.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 8 Jan 2002
Nagy Peter L, Griesenbeck Joachim, Kornberg Roger D, Cleary Michael L
Abstract excerpt
Histone methylation has emerged as an important mechanism for regulating the transcriptional accessibility of chromatin. Several methyltransferases have been shown to target histone amino-terminal tails and mark nucleosomes associated with either euchromatic or heterochromatic states. However, the biochemical machinery responsible for regulating histone methylation and integrating it with other cellular events...
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