Nature Communications (May 2017)

Global mapping of CARM1 substrates defines enzyme specificity and substrate recognition

  • Evgenia Shishkova,
  • Hao Zeng,
  • Fabao Liu,
  • Nicholas W. Kwiecien,
  • Alexander S. Hebert,
  • Joshua J. Coon,
  • Wei Xu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms15571
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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Arginine methylation is an abundant post-translational modification catalysed by protein arginine methyltransferases (PRMTs). Here the authors use quantitative mass spectrometry to globally profile the substrates of the PRMT CARM1 in breast cancer cells, and establish a role for CARM1’s N-terminus in substrate recognition.