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Depletion of DNMT1 in differentiated human cells highlights key classes of sensitive genes and an interplay with polycomb repression
29 Mar 2018
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: DNA methylation plays a vital role in the cell, but loss-of-function mutations of the maintenance methyltransferase DNMT1 in normal human cells are lethal, precluding target identification, and existing hypomorphic lines are tumour cells. We generated instead a hypomorphic series in normal hTERT-immortalised fibroblasts using stably integrated short hairpin RNA. RESULTS: Approximately two-thirds of...
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