Article
The structure of DNA methyltransferase DNMT3C reveals an activity-tuning mechanism for DNA methylation.
The Journal of biological chemistry - 1 Sept 2024
Khudaverdyan Nelli, Lu Jiuwei, Chen Xinyi, Herle Genevieve, Song Jikui
Abstract excerpt
DNA methylation is one of the major epigenetic mechanisms crucial for gene regulation and genome stability. De novo DNA methyltransferase DNMT3C is required for silencing evolutionarily young transposons during mice spermatogenesis. Mutation of DNMT3C led to a sterility phenotype that cannot be rescued by its homologs DNMT3A and DNMT3B. However, the structural basis of DNMT3C-mediated DNA methylation remains...
Topics
- DNA Methylation
- DNA (Cytosine-5-)-Methyltransferases
- Animals
- Mice
- DNA Methyltransferase 3A
- Humans
- DNA Methyltransferase 3B
- Mutation
- DNA
- Crystallography, X-Ray
