Histones can undergo many post-translational modifications that are involved in transcription regulation. This pathway provides an overview of various modifications for histones H3 and H4 and the enzymes that catalyze the modifications, where known.
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This pathway was inferred from Homo sapiens pathway WP2369(69927) with a 51.0% conversion rate.
Rea S, Eisenhaber F, O'Carroll D, Strahl BD, Sun ZW, Schmid M, Opravil S, Mechtler K, Ponting CP, Allis CD, Jenuwein T; ''Regulation of chromatin structure by site-specific histone H3 methyltransferases.''; Nature, 2000 PubMedEurope PMCScholia
Krogan NJ, Dover J, Khorrami S, Greenblatt JF, Schneider J, Johnston M, Shilatifard A; ''COMPASS, a histone H3 (Lysine 4) methyltransferase required for telomeric silencing of gene expression.''; J Biol Chem, 2002 PubMedEurope PMCScholia
Kuzmichev A, Nishioka K, Erdjument-Bromage H, Tempst P, Reinberg D; ''Histone methyltransferase activity associated with a human multiprotein complex containing the Enhancer of Zeste protein.''; Genes Dev, 2002 PubMedEurope PMCScholia
Schotta G, Lachner M, Sarma K, Ebert A, Sengupta R, Reuter G, Reinberg D, Jenuwein T; ''A silencing pathway to induce H3-K9 and H4-K20 trimethylation at constitutive heterochromatin.''; Genes Dev, 2004 PubMedEurope PMCScholia
Strahl BD, Grant PA, Briggs SD, Sun ZW, Bone JR, Caldwell JA, Mollah S, Cook RG, Shabanowitz J, Hunt DF, Allis CD; ''Set2 is a nucleosomal histone H3-selective methyltransferase that mediates transcriptional repression.''; Mol Cell Biol, 2002 PubMedEurope PMCScholia
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