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Mammalian (cytosine-5) methyltransferases cause genomic DNA methylation and lethality in Drosophila.
Nature genetics - 1 Nov 1999
Lyko F, Ramsahoye B H, Kashevsky H, Tudor M, Mastrangelo M A, Orr-Weaver T L, Jaenisch R
Abstract excerpt
CpG methylation is essential for mouse development as well as gene regulation and genome stability. Many features of mammalian DNA methylation are consistent with the action of a de novo methyltransferase that establishes methylation patterns during early development and the post-replicative maintenance of these patterns by a maintenance methyltransferase. The mouse methyltransferase Dnmt1 (encoded by Dnmt) shows...
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