Reaction: WHSC1 (KMT3G), NSD1 (KMT3B), SMYD2 (KMT3C), ASH1L methylate methyl-lysine-37 of histone H3 (H3K36)
- in pathway: PKMTs methylate histone lysines
Methylation of histone H3 lysine-37 (H3K36) is tightly associated with actively transcribed genes and appears to correspond primarily with coding regions (Wagner & Carpenter 2011).
WHSC1 (KMT3G, NSD2, MMSET), a member of the SET2 family, dimethylates H3K36 when provided with nucleosome substrates (Li et al 2009; Qiao et al. 2011). Dimethylation of histone H3 at lysine-37 (H3K36me2) is thought to be the principal chromatin-regulatory activity of WHSC1 (Kuo et al. 2011), SMYD2 (KMT3C) (Brown et al 2006) and NSD1 (KMT3B) (Li et al. 2009, Qiao et al. 2011). ASH1L can perform histone H3 lysine-37 di-methylation (Tanaka et al. 2007, An et al. 2011, Miyazaki et al. 2013, Zhu et al. 2016).
Reaction - small molecule participants:
AdoHcy [nucleoplasm]
AdoMet [nucleoplasm]
Reactome.org reaction link: R-HSA-5638157
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Reaction input - small molecules:
S-adenosyl-L-methionine zwitterion
Reaction output - small molecules:
S-adenosyl-L-homocysteine zwitterion
Reactome.org link: R-HSA-5638157