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1: Genome Biol. 2005;6(8):227. Epub 2005 Aug 2.Click here to read Click here to read Links

The SET-domain protein superfamily: protein lysine methyltransferases.

Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SA, UK. scd@sanger.ac.uk

The SET-domain protein methyltransferase superfamily includes all but one of the proteins known to methylate histones on lysine. Histone methylation is important in the regulation of chromatin and gene expression.

PMID: 16086857 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

PMCID: PMC1273623