Description
Product Characteristics:
Methylates (mono- and asymmetric dimethylation) the guanidino nitrogens of arginyl residues in several proteins involved in DNA packaging, transcription regulation, and mRNA stability. Recruited to promoters upon gene activation together with histone acetyltransferases from EP300/P300 and p160 families, methylates histone H3 at 'Arg-17' and activates transcription via chromatin remodeling. During nuclear hormone receptor activation and TCF7L2/TCF4 activation, acts synergically with EP300/P300 and either one of the p160 histone acetyltransferases NCOA1/SRC1, NCOA2/GRIP1 and NCOA3/ACTR or CTNNB1/beta-catenin to activate transcription. During myogenic transcriptional activation, acts together with NCOA3/ACTR as a coactivator for MEF2C.
Subcellular location: Nucleus
Synonyms: CARM1_HUMAN, Coactivator associated arginine methyltransferase 1, Coactivator-associated arginine methyltransferase 1, Histone arginine methyltransferase CARM 1, Histone arginine methyltransferase CARM1, Histone-arginine methyltransferase CARM1, PRMT 4, Protein arginine methyltransferase, Protein arginine N methyltransferase 4, Protein arginine N-methyltransferase 4.
Target Information: Protein arginine N-methyltransferases, such as CARM1, catalyze the transfer of a methyl group from S-adenosyl-L-methionine to the side chain nitrogens of arginine residues within proteins to form methylated arginine derivatives and S-adenosyl-L-homocysteine. Protein arginine methylation has been implicated in signal transduction, metabolism of nascent pre-RNA, and transcriptional activation (Frankel et al., 2002 [PubMed 11724789]).[supplied by OMIM, Mar 2008]