Nature Reviews Cancer 15, 334 (2015)

Hijacked in cancer: the KMT2 (MLL) family of methyltransferases

Rajesh C. Rao, Yali Dou.
Histone–lysine N-methyltransferase 2 (KMT2) family proteins methylate lysine 4 on the histone H3 tail at important regulatory regions in the genome and thereby impart crucial functions through modulating chromatin structures and DNA accessibility. Although the human KMT2 family was initially named the mixed-lineage leukaemia