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SUBMITTER: Lin CH
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2642969 | biostudies-literature | 2008 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Molecular cell 20081201 5
Recent discoveries of histone demethylases demonstrate that histone methylation is reversible. However, mechanisms governing the targeting and regulation of histone demethylation remain elusive. Here we report that a Drosophila melanogaster JmjC domain-containing protein, dKDM4A, is a histone H3K36 demethylase. dKDM4A specifically demethylates H3K36me2 and H3K36me3 both in vitro and in vivo. Affinity purification and mass spectrometry analysis revealed that heterochromatin protein 1a (HP1a) asso ...[more]