DNA methylation

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

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

O Bogdanović, GJC Veenstra - Chromosoma, 2009 - Springer
… are known to bind sites of hypermethylation in human cancer cell lines… of DNA methylation,
DNA methyltransferases, and methyl-CpGDNA methylation makes an essential and versatile …

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 …

DNA methylation inhibits transcription indirectly via a methyl-CpG binding protein

J Boyes, A Bird - Cell, 1991 - cell.com
DNA is heavily methylated at cytosine residues within the dinucleotide sequence CpG. The
… debate, but several studies have established that methylation of the 5’end of several genes is …

Repression of genes by DNA methylation depends on CpG density and promoter strength: evidence for involvement of a methylCpG binding protein.

J Boyes, A Bird - The EMBO journal, 1992 - embopress.org
methylated competitor DNA, suggesting that repression of this sparsely methylated promoter
was in fact mediated by a methyl-CpG … the effect of DNA methylation on transcription of CpG-…

The methyl-CpG-binding protein MeCP2 links DNA methylation to histone methylation

F Fuks, PJ Hurd, D Wolf, X Nan, AP Bird… - Journal of Biological …, 2003 - ASBMB
… that MeCP2 facilitates H3 Lys 9 methylation of the H19 gene, a … DNA methylation and
histone methylation and thus reinforce the repressive function of these two distinct methylation

Mechanisms of DNA methylation, methyl-CpG recognition, and demethylation in mammals

X Cheng, H Hashimoto, JR Horton, X Zhang - Handbook of epigenetics, 2011 - Elsevier
DNA methylation and histone modifications are intricately connected with each other … DNA
methylation profiles suggest that DNA methylation is better correlated with histone methylation

Expression of mRNA for DNA methyltransferases and methyl-CpG–binding proteins and DNA methylation status on CpG islands and pericentromeric satellite regions …

Y Saito, Y Kanai, M Sakamoto, H Saito, H Ishii… - Hepatology, 2001 - Elsevier
DNA methyltransferases may contribute to DNA methylation patterns in HCCs, we analyzed
DNA methylation status on 7 type C CpG islands in the same cohort. DNA hypermethylation

… of methyl-DNA immunoprecipitation (MeDIP) and methyl-CpG binding domain (MBD) protein capture for genome-wide DNA methylation analysis reveal CpG …

SS Nair, MW Coolen, C Stirzaker, JZ Song… - Epigenetics, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
… to enrich for methylated DNA regions of the genome, namely methylDNAmethylated DNA
using a methyl-CpG binding domain-based (MBD) protein to discover differentially methylated

[PDF][PDF] N-CoR mediates DNA methylation-dependent repression through a methyl CpG binding protein Kaiso

HG Yoon, DW Chan, AB Reynolds, J Qin, J Wong - Molecular cell, 2003 - cell.com
… repression at methylated loci are fundamental to understanding the biological consequences
of DNA methylation. Here we demonstrate that Kaiso, a methyl CpG binding protein …