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MOLECULAR CELL
Volume 12, Issue 6, Pages 1591-1598Publisher
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/S1097-2765(03)00479-9
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- NIGMS NIH HHS [GM53512, GM 37537, GM 64279] Funding Source: Medline
- NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GENERAL MEDICAL SCIENCES [R37GM053512, R01GM037537, F32GM064279, R01GM053512] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
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The functional significance of mono-, di-, and trimethylation of lysine residues within histone proteins remains unclear. Antibodies developed to selectively recognize each of these methylated states at histone H3 lysine 9 (H3 Lys9) demonstrated that mono- and dimethylation localized specifically to silent domains within euchromatin. In contrast, trimethylated H3 Lys9 was enriched at pericentric heterochromatin. Enzymes known to methylate H3 Lys9 displayed remarkably different enzymatic properties in vivo. G9a was responsible for all detectable H3 Lys9 dimethylation and a significant amount of monomethylation within silent euchromatin. In contrast, Suv39h1 and Suv39h2 directed H3 Lys9 trimethylation specifically at pericentric heterochromatin. Thus, different methylated states of H3 Lys9 are directed by specific histone methyltransferases to mark distinct domains of silent chromatin.
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