Histone-arginine methyltransferase CARM1 (CARM1)

Methylates (mono- and asymmetric dimethylation) that the guanidino nitrogens of arginyl residues in a number of proteins involved in DNA packaging, transcription regulation, pre-mRNA splicing, and mRNA stability. Recruited into promoters upon gene activation together with histone acetyltransferases from EP300/P300 and p160 households, methylates histone H3 at'Arg-17' (H3R17me), forming mainly asymmetric dimethylarginine (H3R17me2a), leading to activate transcription through chromatin remodeling.

Throughout myogenic transcriptional activation, acts together with NCOA3/ACTR as a coactivator for MEF2C. Throughout monocyte inflammatory stimulation, acts together with EP300/P300 as a coactivator for NF-kappa-B.