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Carica papaya SET Family
Description
Marmorstein. 2003: The methylation of lysine residues on histone tails is catalyzed by proteins containing a conserved SET domain. A recent flurry of structures of SET domain proteins has revealed a new protein fold and a scaffold for understanding catalysis and substrate binding by these enzymes. The prospect that histone methylation might form an epigenetic code and the implicated involvement of SET domain proteins in cancer assures that structure-function studies of these enzymes will continue until their detailed mechanism of action is determined.
Members of this familySHOULD possess SET domain
SHOULD NOT possess CXC PHD zf-C2H2 domains
This family is also present in:
- Cyanidioschyzon merolae
- Galdieria sulphuraria
- Micromonas pusilla CCMP1545
- Micromonas sp. RCC299
- Ostreococcus lucimarinus
- Ostreococcus tauri
- Chlamydomonas reinhardtii
- Chlorella sp. NC64A
- Coccomyxa sp. C-169
- Physcomitrella patens
- Selaginella moellendorffii
- Oryza sativa subsp. indica
- Oryza sativa subsp. japonica
- Sorghum bicolor
- Zea mays
- Arabidopsis lyrata
- Arabidopsis thaliana
- Populus trichocarpa
- Vitis vinifera
There are 20 gene models in this family
General references
Marmorstein, R. 2003. Structure of SET domain proteins: a new twist on histone methylation. Trends Biochem. Sci. 28(2):59-62 PUBMEDID:12575990Design qRT-PCR primers using Quantprime