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Demethylation of trimethylated histone H3 Lys4 in vivo by JARID1 JmjC proteins.

Seward DJ, Cubberley G, Kim S, Schonewald M, Zhang L, Tripet B, Bentley DL.

Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, University of Colorado School of Medicine, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, MS8101, P.O. Box 6511, Aurora, Colorado 80045, USA.

Histone H3 Lys4 trimethylation (H3-K4me3) is a conserved mark of actively transcribed chromatin. Using a conditional mutant of the yeast H3-K4 methyltransferase, Set1p, we demonstrate rapid turnover of H3-K4me3 and H3-K4me2 in vivo and show this process requires Yjr119Cp, of the JARID1 family of JmjC proteins. Ectopic overexpression of mouse Jarid1B, a Yjr119Cp homolog, greatly diminished H3-K4me3 and H3-K4me2 in HeLa cells, suggesting these proteins function as K4 demethylases in vivo.

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PMID: 17310255 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]