EHMT2
Encyclopedia
Histone-lysine N-methyltransferase, H3 lysine-9 specific 3 is a histone methyltransferase
that in humans is encoded by the EHMT2 gene
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Histone methyltransferase
Histone methyltransferases are enzymes, histone-lysine N-methyltransferase and histone-arginine N-methyltransferase, that catalyze the transfer of one to three methyl groups from the cofactor S-Adenosyl methionine to lysine and arginine residues of histone proteins...
that in humans is encoded by the EHMT2 gene
Gene
A gene is a molecular unit of heredity of a living organism. It is a name given to some stretches of DNA and RNA that code for a type of protein or for an RNA chain that has a function in the organism. Living beings depend on genes, as they specify all proteins and functional RNA chains...
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