title: Structural and sequence motifs of protein (histone) methylation enzymes.
abstract: With genome sequencing nearing completion for the model organisms used in biomedical research, there is a rapidly growing appreciation that proteomics, the study of covalent modification to proteins, and transcriptional regulation will likely dominate the research headlines in the next decade. Protein methylation plays a central role in both of these fields, as several different residues (Arg, Lys, Gln) are methylated in cells and methylation plays a central role in the "histone code" that regulates chromatin structure and impacts transcription. In some cases, a single lysine can be mono-, di-, or trimethylated, with different functional consequences for each of the three forms. This review describes structural aspects of methylation of histone lysine residues by two enzyme families with entirely different structural scaffolding (the SET proteins and Dot1p) and methylation of protein arginine residues by PRMTs.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biochemistry, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia 30322, USA. xcheng@emory.edu
authors.forename: Xiaodong
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Cheng
authors.forename: Robert E
authors.initials: RE
authors.lastname: Collins
authors.forename: Xing
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Zhang
mesh_terms: D020816:Amino Acid Motifs; D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D001120:Arginine / Q000737:chemistry; D001665:Binding Sites; D002843:Chromatin / Q000737:chemistry*; D018360:Crystallography, X-Ray; D011495:Histone-Lysine N-Methyltransferase / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000378:metabolism*; D006657:Histones / Q000737:chemistry; D006801:Humans; D008239:Lysine / Q000737:chemistry; D013058:Mass Spectrometry; D008745:Methylation; D008958:Models, Molecular; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D010455:Peptides / Q000737:chemistry; D010649:Phenylalanine / Q000737:chemistry; D011485:Protein Binding; D017434:Protein Structure, Tertiary; D011506:Proteins / Q000737:chemistry; D011522:Protons; D017386:Sequence Homology, Amino Acid; D014443:Tyrosine / Q000737:chemistry; D015032:Zinc / Q000737:chemistry
chemical_list: D002843:Chromatin; D006657:Histones; D010455:Peptides; D011506:Proteins; D011522:Protons; D014443:Tyrosine; D010649:Phenylalanine; D001120:Arginine; D011495:Histone-Lysine N-Methyltransferase; D015032:Zinc; D008239:Lysine