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A Surveillance Mechanism Ensures Repair of DNA Lesions during Zygotic Reprogramming
1 Dec 2016
Abstract excerpt
Sexual reproduction culminates in a totipotent zygote with the potential to produce a whole organism. Sperm chromatin reorganization and epigenetic reprogramming that alter DNA and histone modifications generate a totipotent embryo. Active DNA demethylation of the paternal genome has been proposed to involve base excision and DNA repair-based mechanisms. The nature and consequence of DNA lesions generated during...
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