Methods applied to the study of protein arginine methylation

Donghang Cheng, Vidyasiri Vemulapalli, Mark T. Bedford

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Abstract

Arginine methylation was discovered in the mid-1960s. About 15 years ago, the first protein arginine N-methyltransferase (PRMT) enzyme was described. The PRMT family now stands at nine members, and these enzymes play a key role in regulating a multitude of cellular events. The majority of the PRMTs have been deleted in mice, thus providing genetically tractable systems for in vivo and cell-based studies. These studies have implicated this posttranslational modification in chromatin remodeling, transcriptional regulation, RNA processing, protein/RNA trafficking, signal transduction, and DNA repair. In this chapter, we introduce different approaches that have been developed to assess protein arginine methylation levels and characterize PRMT substrates.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationMethods in Enzymology
PublisherAcademic Press Inc.
Pages71-92
Number of pages22
DOIs
StatePublished - 2012

Publication series

NameMethods in Enzymology
Volume512
ISSN (Print)0076-6879
ISSN (Electronic)1557-7988

Keywords

  • CARM1
  • Epigenetic
  • Histone methylation
  • PRMT1
  • PRMT5

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Biochemistry
  • Molecular Biology

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