Anti-Dimethyl Histone H3 (Lys4) Antibody, clone CMA303, Trial Size

Histones are highly conserved proteins that serve as the structural scaffold for the organization of nuclear DNA into chromatin. The four core histones, H2A, H2B, H3, and H4, assemble into an octamer (2 molecules of each). Subsequently, 146 base pairs of DNA are wrapped around the octamer, forming a nucleosome. Histones are modified post-translationally; and these modifications regulate DNA transcription, repair, recombination, and replication. The most commonly studied modifications are acetylation, phosphorylation, methylation, and ubiquitination. The modifications occur predominantly on the N-terminal and C-terminal tails that extend beyond the nucleosome core particle. Dimethyl-lysine 4 histone H3 (H3K4me2) is a transcription-activating chromatin mark, and dimethyl histone H3 Lys4 (H3K4me2) is depleted from regions with DNA methylation. Multipotential hematopoietic cells have a subset of genes that are differentially methylated (H3K4me2+/me3-). These genes are transcriptionally silent and highly enriched in lineage-specific hematopoietic genes, suggesting a role for H3K4 methylation in differentiation.