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. 2015 Jul 31;72(22):4257–4272. doi: 10.1007/s00018-015-2001-4

Table 2.

Lysine demethylases and their histone and non-histone substrates in humans

KDMs Other names Substrates and modified lysine residues
Histones References Non-histone proteins In vitro In cells References
LSD1

KDM1A,

AOF2

H3K4me2 Shi et al. [103] and Metzger et al. [109] p53 K370me2 Peptide Auto-rad WB Huang et al. [105]
DNMT1K142me1 Peptide Auto-rad Auto-rad Wang et al. [141]
E2F1 K185me1 Protein Auto-rad Auto-rad Kontaki and Talianidis [21]
MYPT1K442me1 Peptide MS Auto-rad Cho et al. [104]
STAT3 K140me2 Protein Auto-rad WB Yang et al. [106]
MEF2DK267me2 Protein WB IP and WB Choi et al. [59]
MTA1 K532me2 Protein Auto-rad N/A Nair et al. [60]
ERα K266me1 N/A WB Zhang et al. [72]
HSP90 K209me1, K615me1 Protein Auto-rad N/A Abu-Farha et al. [73]
HIV Tat K51me1 Protein WB WB Sakane et al. [107]
JMJD2A KDM4A

H3K9me2/3,

H3K36me2/3

Whetstine et al. [112] and Klose et al. [113]

G9a K185me3, WIZ K305me3, CDYL1 K135me3,

CSB K170me3, K297me3, K448me3, K1054me3

Peptide MS N/A Ponnaluri et al. [114]
FBXL11 KDM2A H3K36me2 Tsukada et al. [115] RelA K218me1, K221me2 N/A WB Lu et al. [93]
PHF2 JHDM1E H3K9me2/1 Wen et al. [117] ARID5BK336me2 Protein WB IP and WB Baba et al. [116]

Auto-rad autoradiography, IP immunoprecipitation, MS mass spectrometry, N/A not available, WB Western blotting using site-specific methylation antibodies