CpG-rich islands and the function of DNA methylation

AP Bird - Nature, 1986 - nature.com
… nature of CpG-rich regions was noted and a link with nonmethylated DNA was proposed. …
CpG-rich DNA might assert itself in chromatin via CpGbinding proteins (see below), or because …

DNA methylation and the frequency of CpG in animal DNA

AP Bird - Nucleic acids research, 1980 - academic.oup.com
… that the CpG deficiency is related to DNA methylation, since nCpG is the major methylated
… The present work provides support for this suggestion by relating known CpG frequencies to …

DNA methylation in human epigenomes depends on local topology of CpG sites

C Lövkvist, IB Dodd, K Sneppen… - Nucleic acids …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
… of CpG clustering in the human genome associated to CpGCpG clusters on the basis of
short distances between CpGsmethylation on the number and density of CpG organization. …

DNA methylation and methyl-CpG binding proteins: developmental requirements and function

O Bogdanović, GJC Veenstra - Chromosoma, 2009 - Springer
… are occupied by various proteins, including methyl-CpG binding … of DNA methylation, DNA
methyltransferases, and methyl-CpGDNA methylation makes an essential and versatile …

DNA methylation

R Singal, GD Ginder - Blood, The Journal of the American …, 1999 - ashpublications.org
… removing the methyl group from methylated CpG-containing DNA in cell free reactions as well
CpG dinucleotides, suggesting that DNA methylation may contribute to these mutations.92 …

[HTML][HTML] High density DNA methylation array with single CpG site resolution

M Bibikova, B Barnes, C Tsan, V Ho, B Klotzle, JM Le… - Genomics, 2011 - Elsevier
… and input from DNA methylation experts. … of CpG methylation using bisulfite-converted
genomic DNA. We applied this technology to analyze DNA methylation in normal and tumor DNA

DNA methylation and gene expression

Z Siegfried, I Simon - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Systems …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
… The methylation pattern in mammalian genomes is bimodal, … methylated except for short DNA
stretches called CpG islands … their CpG density whereas methylated regions lose their CpG

DNA methylation and chromatin structure: the puzzling CpG islands

P Caiafa, M Zampieri - Journal of cellular biochemistry, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
… that these regions are termed CpG islands because they are … for enzymes involved in DNA
methylation. Anomalous insertion of … CpG islands, which remain protected from methylation in …

The methyl-CpG binding domain and the evolving role of DNA methylation in animals

B Hendrich, S Tweedie - TRENDS in Genetics, 2003 - cell.com
DNA methylation-mediated silencing, and to protect against extensive mutation, there was
also a coordinate increase in the number and diversity of methyl-CpG … the methyl-CpG binding …

In Vivo Control of CpG and Non-CpG DNA Methylation by DNA Methyltransferases

J Arand, D Spieler, T Karius, MR Branco… - PLoS …, 2012 - journals.plos.org
… and non-symmetric DNA methylation patterns in a particular … analysis of DNA methylation
patterns generated by high … methylation maintenance, ie hemimethylated CpG positions, …