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DNMT1 deficiency triggers mismatch repair defects in human cells through depletion of repair protein levels in a process involving the DNA damage response
2 Jun 2011
Abstract excerpt
DNA methyltransferase 1 (DNMT1) maintains methylation at CpG dinucleotides, important for transcriptional silencing at many loci. It is also implicated in stabilizing repeat sequences: DNMT1 deficiency causes microsatellite instability in mouse embryonic stem cells, but it is unclear how this occurs, how repeats lacking CpG become unstable and whether the effect is confined to stem cells. To address these...
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