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In vitro and in vivo analyses of a Phe/Tyr switch controlling product specificity of histone lysine methyltransferases.
The Journal of biological chemistry - 18 Feb 2005
Collins Robert E, Tachibana Makoto, Tamaru Hisashi, Smith Kristina M, Jia Da, Zhang Xing, Selker Eric U, Shinkai Yoichi, Cheng Xiaodong
Abstract excerpt
The functional significance of mono-, di-, and tri-methylation of lysine residues within histone proteins is under investigation. Evidence from several model organisms suggests that different methylated states of H3 Lys(9) (H3K9) are generated by specific histone methyltransferases (MTases) to mark distinct types of silent chromatin. Sequence alignment of all histone lysine MTases with known product specificity...
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