作者
Hisashi Tamaru, Xing Zhang, Debra McMillen, Prim B Singh, Jun-ichi Nakayama, Shiv I Grewal, C David Allis, Xiaodong Cheng, Eric U Selker
发表日期
2003/5
期刊
Nature genetics
卷号
34
期号
1
页码范围
75-79
出版商
Nature Publishing Group US
简介
Besides serving to package nuclear DNA, histones carry information in the form of a diverse array of post-translational modifications. Methylation of histones H3 and H4 has been implicated in long-term epigenetic 'memory'. Dimethylation or trimethylation of Lys4 of histone H3 (H3 Lys4) has been found in expressible euchromatin of yeasts and mammals,,. In contrast, methylation of Lys9 of histone H3 (H3 Lys9) has been implicated in establishing and maintaining the largely quiescent heterochromatin of mammals, yeasts, Drosophila melanogaster and plants,,,,. We have previously shown that a DNA methylation mutant of Neurospora crassa, dim-5 (defective in methylation), has a nonsense mutation in the SET domain of an H3-specific histone methyltransferase and that substitutions of H3 Lys9 cause gross hypomethylation of DNA. Similarly, the KRYPTONITE histone methyltransferase is required for full DNA …
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