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Facts about Histone-lysine N-methyltransferase 2B.
H3 'Lys-4' methylation represents a specific tag for epigenetic transcriptional activation. Plays a central role in beta-globin locus transcription regulation by being recruited by NFE2.
Human | |
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Gene Name: | KMT2B |
Uniprot: | Q9UMN6 |
Entrez: | 9757 |
Belongs to: |
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class V-like SAM-binding methyltransferase superfamily |
Histone-lysine N-methyltransferase 2B
Mass (kDA):
293.515 kDA
Human | |
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Location: | 19q13.12 |
Sequence: | 19; NC_000019.10 (35717818..35738878) |
Widely expressed. Highest levels in testis. Also found in brain with higher expression in the cerebellum than in any other region, bone marrow, heart, muscle, kidney, placenta, spleen, thymus, prostate, ovary, intestine, colon, peripheral blood lymphocytes and pancreas. Often amplified in pancreatic carcinomas.
Nucleus.
PMID: 10637508 by Huntsman D.G., et al. MLL2, the second human homolog of the Drosophila trithorax gene, maps to 19q13.1 and is amplified in solid tumor cell lines.
PMID: 10409430 by FitzGerald K.T., et al. MLL2: a new mammalian member of the trx/MLL family of genes.