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SUBMITTER: Nguyen AT
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3134078 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Genes & development 20110701 13
DOT1 (disruptor of telomeric silencing; also called Kmt4) was initially discovered in budding yeast in a genetic screen for genes whose deletion confers defects in telomeric silencing. Since the discovery ∼10 years ago that Dot1 and its mammalian homolog, DOT1L (DOT1-Like), possess histone methyltransferase activity toward histone H3 Lys 79, great progress has been made in characterizing their enzymatic activities and the role of Dot1/DOT1L-mediated H3K79 methylation in transcriptional regulatio ...[more]