Journal
CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR LIFE SCIENCES
Volume 72, Issue 22, Pages 4257-4272Publisher
SPRINGER BASEL AG
DOI: 10.1007/s00018-015-2001-4
Keywords
Lysine methylation; SETD7; G9a; SMYD2; p53; ER alpha
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- Welch Foundation [G1719]
- American Cancer Society [RSG-13-290-01-TBE]
- CPRIT [RP110471, RP140323]
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Lysine methylation is a common posttranslational modification (PTM) of histones that is important for the epigenetic regulation of transcription and chromatin in eukaryotes. Increasing evidence demonstrates that in addition to histones, lysine methylation also occurs on various non-histone proteins, especially transcription- and chromatin-regulating proteins. In this review, we will briefly describe the histone lysine methyltransferases (KMTs) that have a broad spectrum of non-histone substrates. We will use p53 and nuclear receptors, especially estrogen receptor alpha, as examples to discuss the dynamic nature of non-histone protein lysine methylation, the writers, erasers, and readers of these modifications, and the crosstalk between lysine methylation and other PTMs in regulating the functions of the modified proteins. Understanding the roles of lysine methylation in normal cells and during development will shed light on the complex biology of diseases associated with the dysregulation of lysine methylation on both histones and non-histone proteins.
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