Article
Major and essential role for the DNA methylation mark in mouse embryogenesis and stable association of DNMT1 with newly replicated regions.
Molecular and cellular biology - 1 Dec 2007
Takebayashi Shin-ichiro, Tamura Takashi, Matsuoka Chisa, Okano Masaki
Abstract excerpt
DNA methyltransferase 1 (DNMT1) plays an important role in the inheritance of genomic DNA methylation, which is coupled to the DNA replication process. Early embryonic lethality in DNMT1-null mutant (Dnmt1(c)) mice indicates that DNA methylation is essential for mammalian development. DNMT1, however, interacts with a number of transcriptional regulators and has a transcriptional repressor activity independent of...
Topics
- Alleles
- Animals
- Catalysis
- Catalytic Domain
- Cell Proliferation
- Crosses, Genetic
- DNA (Cytosine-5-)-Methyltransferase 1
- DNA (Cytosine-5-)-Methyltransferases
- DNA Methylation
- DNA Replication
