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DNA Methylation on N6-Adenine in C. elegans.
Cell - 7 May 2015
Greer Eric Lieberman, Blanco Mario Andres, Gu Lei, Sendinc Erdem, Liu Jianzhao, Aristizábal-Corrales David, Hsu Chih-Hung, Aravind L, He Chuan, Shi Yang
Abstract excerpt
In mammalian cells, DNA methylation on the fifth position of cytosine (5mC) plays an important role as an epigenetic mark. However, DNA methylation was considered to be absent in C. elegans because of the lack of detectable 5mC, as well as homologs of the cytosine DNA methyltransferases. Here, us...
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