作者
Sanjoy K Bhattacharya, Shyam Ramchandani, Nadia Cervoni, Moshe Szyf
发表日期
1999/2/18
期刊
Nature
卷号
397
期号
6720
页码范围
579-583
出版商
Nature Publishing Group UK
简介
DNA-methylation patterns are important for regulating genome functions, and are determined by the enzymatic processes of methylation and demethylation. The demethylating enzyme has now been identified: a mammalian complementary DNA encodes a methyl-CpG-binding domain, bears a demethylase activity that transforms methylated cytosine bases to cytosine, and demethylates a plasmid when the cDNA is translated or transiently transfected into human embryonal kidney cells in vitro. The discovery of this DNA demethylase should provide a basis for the molecular and developmental analysis of the role of DNA methylation and demethylation.
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