AmiGO 2: Term Details for "histone methyltransferase activity" (GO:0042054)

Accession: GO:0042054
Name: histone methyltransferase activity
Ontology: molecular_function
Synonyms: histone N-methyltransferase activity, histone methylase activity
Alternate IDs: None
Definition: Catalysis of the reaction: S-adenosyl-L-methionine + histone = S-adenosyl-L-homocysteine + methyl-histone. Histone methylation generally occurs on either an arginine or a lysine residue. Source: GOC:curators
Comment: None
History: See term history for GO:0042054 at QuickGO
Chem. react.: None
Subset: None
Related: Link to all genes and gene products annotated to histone methyltransferase activity (excluding "regulates").; Link to all direct and indirect annotations to histone methyltransferase activity (excluding "regulates").; Link to all direct and indirect annotations download (limited to first 10,000) for histone methyltransferase activity (excluding "regulates").

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For more information, please see the ontology relation documentation.

subject	relation	object
histone methyltransferase activity	is_a	protein methyltransferase activity (GO:0008276)
histone methyltransferase activity	is_a	histone modifying activity (GO:0140993)

subject	relation	object
histone arginine N-methyltransferase activity (GO:0008469)	is_a	histone methyltransferase activity
histone H2A methyltransferase activity (GO:0140940)	is_a	histone methyltransferase activity
histone methyltransferase complex (GO:0035097)	RO:0002215	histone methyltransferase activity
histone H4 methyltransferase activity (GO:0140939)	is_a	histone methyltransferase activity
histone H3 methyltransferase activity (GO:0140938)	is_a	histone methyltransferase activity