Bharathy Narendra, Taneja Reshma
Department of Physiology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore.
Transcription. 2012 Sep-Oct;3(5):215-20. doi: 10.4161/trns.20914. Epub 2012 Sep 1.
The transcription factor MyoD is a master regulator of skeletal muscle differentiation. The finding that G9a, an enzyme principally involved in histone H3 lysine 9 di-methylation (H3K9me2), methylates MyoD, identifies previously unappreciated mechanisms by which chromatin modifiers regulate the transcriptional activity of non-histone substrates to control cellular differentiation programs.
转录因子MyoD是骨骼肌分化的主要调节因子。主要参与组蛋白H3赖氨酸9二甲基化(H3K9me2)的酶G9a使MyoD甲基化,这一发现揭示了此前未被认识到的机制,即染色质修饰因子通过该机制调节非组蛋白底物的转录活性,以控制细胞分化程序。