Anti-CLLD8/Setdb2 Antibody Picoband® Fluoro488 Conjugated

SET domain bifurcated histone lysine methyltransferase 2 is a protein in humans encoded by the SETDB2 gene. It is mapped to 13q14.2. This gene encodes a member of a family of proteins that contain a methyl-CpG-binding domain (MBD) and a SET domain and function as histone methyltransferases. This protein is recruited to heterochromatin and plays a role in the regulation of chromosome segregation. This region is commonly deleted in chronic lymphocytic leukemia. Naturally-occuring readthrough transcription occurs from this gene to the downstream PHF11 (PHD finger protein 11) gene. Alternative splicing results in multiple transcript variants.

Histone-lysine N-methyltransferase SETDB2; Chronic lymphocytic leukemia deletion region gene 8 protein; Lysine N-methyltransferase 1F; SET domain bifurcated 2; SETDB2; C13orf4; CLLD8; KMT1F

Histone methyltransferase involved in left-right axis specification in early development and mitosis. Specifically trimethylates 'Lys-9' of histone H3 (H3K9me3) . H3K9me3 is a specific tag for epigenetic transcriptional repression that recruits HP1 (CBX1, CBX3 and/or CBX5) proteins to methylated histones. Contributes to H3K9me3 in both the interspersed repetitive elements and centromere-associated repeats. Plays a role in chromosome condensation and segregation during mitosis.

1. Mabuchi, H., Fujii, H., Calin, G., Alder, H., Negrini, M., Rassenti, L., Kipps, T. J., Bullrich, F., Croce, C. M. Cloning and characterization of CLLD6, CLLD7, CLLD8, novel candidate genes for leukemogenesis at chromosome 13q14, a region commonly deleted in B-cell chronic lymphocytic leukemia. Cancer Res. 61: 2870-2877, 2001. 2. Zhang, Y., Leaves, N. I., Anderson, G. G., Ponting, C. P., Broxholme, J., Holt, R., Edser, P., Bhattacharyya, S., Dunham, A., Adcock, I. M., Pulleyn, L., Barnes, P. J., and 11 others. Positional cloning of a quantitative trait locus on chromosome 13q14 that influences immunoglobulin E levels and asthma. Nature Genet. 34: 181-186, 2003.