Techniques to Study Automethylation of Histone Methyltransferases and its Functional Impact.
Methods Mol Biol 2022;
2529:109-120. [PMID:
35733012 DOI:
10.1007/978-1-0716-2481-4_5]
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Abstract
The catalytic activity of histone methyltransferases is not restricted to histones but also includes noncanonical substrates. Increasing evidence shows that histone methyltransferases methylate themselves, and automethylation has emerged as a self-regulatory mechanism. Here, we introduce experimental procedures to identify automethylation sites of histone methyltransferases and to investigate the function of automethylation in a reconstituted biochemical system and in cellular contexts.
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