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SET Domain Proteins in Plants
Jiang-Hua Song, Jia-Shu Cao*
Institute of Vegetable Science, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310029, China
Abstract: SET domain proteins contain conserved SET domains， which intensively involved in histone methylation. Histone modification plays an important part in transcriptional regulation in plants emerging as a central theme in the control of gene expression. SET domain proteins have been extensively studied in recent years， which are required to elucidate the mechanism of histone modification. In this review， the conserved structure and evolutionary mechanism of SET domain proteins in plants was first described. Furthermore， their complex biological functions were discussed， involved in the condensation and isolation of chromosome， the transcription of gene， and the replication and repair of DNA， and so on. It is revealed that SET domain proteins in plants are important for determining epigenetic regulation of gene expression and plant development.
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