ASH2L

Ash2 (absent, small, or homeotic)-like (Drosophila)
Available structures PDB Ortholog search: PDBe, RCSB List of PDB id codes 3RSN​, 3S32​, 3TOJ​, 4RIQ​, 4X8N​, 4X8P​
Identifiers
Symbols	ASH2L ; ASH2; ASH2L1; ASH2L2; Bre2
External IDs	OMIM: 604782 MGI: 1344416 HomoloGene: 3436 GeneCards: ASH2L Gene
Gene ontology Molecular function • DNA binding • protein binding • histone methyltransferase activity (H3-K4 specific) • transcription regulatory region DNA binding • metal ion binding • euchromatin binding Cellular component • nucleus • nucleoplasm • nuclear euchromatin • histone methyltransferase complex • Set1C/COMPASS complex Biological process • chromatin organization • transcription, DNA-templated • regulation of transcription, DNA-templated • transcription from RNA polymerase II promoter • cellular response to DNA damage stimulus • positive regulation of cell proliferation • hemopoiesis • response to estrogen • positive regulation of transcription from RNA polymerase II promoter • histone H3-K4 methylation Sources: Amigo / QuickGO
Orthologs
Species	Human	Mouse
Entrez	9070	23808
Ensembl	ENSG00000129691	ENSMUSG00000031575
UniProt	Q9UBL3	Q91X20
RefSeq (mRNA)	NM_001105214	NM_001080793
RefSeq (protein)	NP_001098684	NP_001074262
Location (UCSC)	Chr 8: 38.11 – 38.14 Mb	Chr 8: 25.82 – 25.85 Mb
PubMed search

Set1/Ash2 histone methyltransferase complex subunit ASH2 is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the ASH2L gene.^[1][2]

Interactions

ASH2L has been shown to interact with MLL.^[3]

References

1. Ikegawa S, Isomura M, Koshizuka Y, Nakamura Y (Jul 1999). "Cloning and characterization of ASH2L and Ash2l, human and mouse homologs of the Drosophila ash2 gene". Cytogenet. Cell Genet. 84 (3-4): 167–72. doi:10.1159/000015248. PMID 10393421.
2. "Entrez Gene: ASH2L ash2 (absent, small, or homeotic)-like (Drosophila)".
3. Yokoyama A, Wang Z, Wysocka J, Sanyal M, Aufiero DJ, Kitabayashi I, Herr W, Cleary ML (Jul 2004). "Leukemia proto-oncoprotein MLL forms a SET1-like histone methyltransferase complex with menin to regulate Hox gene expression". Mol. Cell. Biol. 24 (13): 5639–49. doi:10.1128/MCB.24.13.5639-5649.2004. PMC 480881. PMID 15199122.

Further reading

• Wang J, Zhou Y, Yin B, Du G, Huang X, Li G, Shen Y, Yuan J, Qiang B (2001). "ASH2L: alternative splicing and downregulation during induced megakaryocytic differentiation of multipotential leukemia cell lines". J. Mol. Med. 79 (7): 399–405. doi:10.1007/s001090100222. PMID 11466562.
• Goo YH, Sohn YC, Kim DH, Kim SW, Kang MJ, Jung DJ, Kwak E, Barlev NA, Berger SL, Chow VT, Roeder RG, Azorsa DO, Meltzer PS, Suh PG, Song EJ, Lee KJ, Lee YC, Lee JW (2003). "Activating signal cointegrator 2 belongs to a novel steady-state complex that contains a subset of trithorax group proteins". Mol. Cell. Biol. 23 (1): 140–9. doi:10.1128/MCB.23.1.140-149.2003. PMC 140670. PMID 12482968.
• Wysocka J, Myers MP, Laherty CD, Eisenman RN, Herr W (2003). "Human Sin3 deacetylase and trithorax-related Set1/Ash2 histone H3-K4 methyltransferase are tethered together selectively by the cell-proliferation factor HCF-1". Genes Dev. 17 (7): 896–911. doi:10.1101/gad.252103. PMC 196026. PMID 12670868.
• Hughes CM, Rozenblatt-Rosen O, Milne TA, Copeland TD, Levine SS, Lee JC, Hayes DN, Shanmugam KS, Bhattacharjee A, Biondi CA, Kay GF, Hayward NK, Hess JL, Meyerson M (2004). "Menin associates with a trithorax family histone methyltransferase complex and with the hoxc8 locus". Mol. Cell 13 (4): 587–97. doi:10.1016/S1097-2765(04)00081-4. PMID 14992727.
• Yokoyama A, Wang Z, Wysocka J, Sanyal M, Aufiero DJ, Kitabayashi I, Herr W, Cleary ML (2004). "Leukemia proto-oncoprotein MLL forms a SET1-like histone methyltransferase complex with menin to regulate Hox gene expression". Mol. Cell. Biol. 24 (13): 5639–49. doi:10.1128/MCB.24.13.5639-5649.2004. PMC 480881. PMID 15199122.
• Colland F, Jacq X, Trouplin V, Mougin C, Groizeleau C, Hamburger A, Meil A, Wojcik J, Legrain P, Gauthier JM (2004). "Functional proteomics mapping of a human signaling pathway". Genome Res. 14 (7): 1324–32. doi:10.1101/gr.2334104. PMC 442148. PMID 15231748.
• Barrios-Rodiles M, Brown KR, Ozdamar B, Bose R, Liu Z, Donovan RS, Shinjo F, Liu Y, Dembowy J, Taylor IW, Luga V, Przulj N, Robinson M, Suzuki H, Hayashizaki Y, Jurisica I, Wrana JL (2005). "High-throughput mapping of a dynamic signaling network in mammalian cells". Science 307 (5715): 1621–5. doi:10.1126/science.1105776. PMID 15761153.
• Rual JF, Venkatesan K, Hao T, Hirozane-Kishikawa T, Dricot A, Li N, Berriz GF, Gibbons FD, Dreze M, Ayivi-Guedehoussou N, Klitgord N, Simon C, Boxem M, Milstein S, Rosenberg J, Goldberg DS, Zhang LV, Wong SL, Franklin G, Li S, Albala JS, Lim J, Fraughton C, Llamosas E, Cevik S, Bex C, Lamesch P, Sikorski RS, Vandenhaute J, Zoghbi HY, Smolyar A, Bosak S, Sequerra R, Doucette-Stamm L, Cusick ME, Hill DE, Roth FP, Vidal M (2005). "Towards a proteome-scale map of the human protein-protein interaction network". Nature 437 (7062): 1173–8. doi:10.1038/nature04209. PMID 16189514.
• Steward MM, Lee JS, O'Donovan A, Wyatt M, Bernstein BE, Shilatifard A (2006). "Molecular regulation of H3K4 trimethylation by ASH2L, a shared subunit of MLL complexes". Nat. Struct. Mol. Biol. 13 (9): 852–4. doi:10.1038/nsmb1131. PMID 16892064.