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EHMT1 (NM_001145527) - euchromatic histone lysine methyltransferase 1

Histone-Lysine N-Methyltransferase Ehmt1 Isoform 2

Mutations Visualisation

Protein summary

This is an alternative isoform of EHMT1 protein. View all 2 isoforms
EHMT1: histone-lysine N-methyltransferase EHMT1 isoform 2
Description:

The protein encoded by this gene is a histone methyltransferase that methylates the lysine-9 position of histone H3. This action marks the genomic region packaged with these methylated histones for transcriptional repression. This protein may be involved in the silencing of MYC- and E2F-responsive genes and therefore could play a role in the G0/G1 cell cycle transition. Defects in this gene are a cause of chromosome 9q subtelomeric deletion syndrome (9q-syndrome, also known as Kleefstra syndrome). Alternative splicing results in multiple transcript variants. [provided by RefSeq, Aug 2017].

Strand
+
Chromosome
9
Protein
808 residues
All mutations
251
PTM sites
41
CDS
140,513,480 - 140,678,602
Transcription
140,513,443 - 140,678,845
71.91% of sequence is predicted to be disordered

External references

Mappings retrieved from NCBI & UniProt.
RefSeq
Entrez
gene: 79813
UniProt
Ensembl