NCBI Accession #
A2YPT7.2
NCBI Official Full Name
Probable histone-arginine methyltransferase CARM1
UniProt Synonym Gene Names
PRMT4
UniProt Protein Name
Probable histone-arginine methyltransferase CARM1
UniProt Synonym Protein Names
Protein arginine N-methyltransferase 4
UniProt Primary Accession #
A2YPT7
UniProt Secondary Accession #
B8B5U5
UniProt Comments
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, methylates histone H3 and activates transcription via chromatin remodeling.