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ARCHIVES OF BIOCHEMISTRY AND BIOPHYSICS
Volume 665, Issue -, Pages 36-45Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.abb.2019.02.014
Keywords
PRMT7; Monomethylarginine; Protein arginine methylation; Pluripotency; Epigenetics; Cancer
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- National Science Foundation [MCB-1714569]
- UCLA Academic Senate
- predoctoral Ruth L. Kirschstein National Service Award [GM007185]
- postdoctoral Ruth L. Kirschstein National Service Award [T32CA217824]
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Protein arginine methyltransferases (PRMTs) are found in a wide variety of eukaryotic organisms and can regulate gene expression, DNA repair, RNA splicing, and stem cell biology. In mammalian cells, nine genes encode a family of sequence-related enzymes; six of these PRMTs catalyze the formation of co-asymmetric dimethyl derivatives, two catalyze co-symmetric dimethyl derivatives, and only one (PRMT7) solely catalyzes omega-monomethylarginine formation. Purified recombinant PRMT7 displays a number of unique enzymatic properties including a substrate preference for arginine residues in R-X-R motifs with additional flanking basic amino acid residues and a temperature optimum well below 37 degrees C. Evidence has been presented for crosstalk between PRMT7 and PRMT5, where methylation of a histone H4 peptide at R17, a PRMT7 substrate, may activate PRMT5 for methylation of R3. Defects in muscle stem cells (satellite cells) and immune cells are found in mouse Prmt7 homozygous knockouts, while humans lacking PRMT7 are characterized by significant intellectual developmental delays, hypotonia, and facial dysmorphisms. The overexpression of the PRMT7 gene has been correlated with cancer metastasis in humans. Current research challenges include identifying cellular factors that control PRMT7 expression and activity, identifying the physiological substrates of PRMT7, and determining the effect of methylation on these substrates.
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