[PDF][PDF] The role of mammalian DNA methyltransferases in the regulation of gene expression

J Turek-Plewa, PP Jagodzinski - Cellular and Molecular Biology Letters, 2005 - Citeseer
… Regulatory DNA sequences in vertebrates often … DNA is catalyzed by DNA methyltransferases
(DNMTs), which play a special role in the initiation of chromatin remodeling and gene

Targeted mutation of the DNA methyltransferase gene results in embryonic lethality

E Li, TH Bestor, R Jaenisch - Cell, 1992 - Elsevier
Gene targeting in embryonic stem (ES) cells has been used to mutate the murine DNA
methyltransferase gene. ES cell lines homozygous for the mutation were generated by …

Transcriptional regulation of the human DNA Methyltransferase (dnmt1) gene

P Bigey, S Ramchandani, J Theberge, FD Araujo… - Gene, 2000 - Elsevier
DNA methylation is an important component of the epigenetic control of genome functions. …
the DNA Methyltransferase (dnmt1) gene expression is critical for comprehending how DNA

Chromosome instability and immunodeficiency syndrome caused by mutations in a DNA methyltransferase gene

GL Xu, TH Bestor, D Bourc'his, CL Hsieh, N Tommerup… - Nature, 1999 - nature.com
… ICF syndrome is the only genetic disorder known to involve constitutive abnormalities of …
have mutations in both alleles of the gene that encodes DNA methyltransferase 3B (refs 5, 6). …

High expression of the DNA methyltransferase gene characterizes human neoplastic cells and progression stages of colon cancer.

WS El-Deiry, BD Nelkin, P Celano… - Proceedings of the …, 1991 - National Acad Sciences
… local increases in DNA methylation that hold potential for gene inactivation events. To study
… human DNA methyltransferase gene that codes for the enzyme catalyzing DNA methylation. …

Growth regulation of mouse DNA methyltransferase gene expression

M Szyf, V Bozovic, G Tanigawa - Journal of Biological Chemistry, 1991 - Elsevier
… shown that DNA methylation activity correlates with the proliferative activity of cells (8-10).
In this report, we test the hypothesis that regulation of DNA methyltransferase gene expression …

The DNA methyltransferases of mammals

TH Bestor - Human molecular genetics, 2000 - academic.oup.com
gene, which encodes a protein that binds to methylated DNA. … in the DNA methyltransferase-1
(Dnmt1) gene has shown that … that result from mutations in DNA methyltransferase genes. …

DNA methylation and DNA methyltransferases

JR Edwards, O Yarychkivska, M Boulard… - Epigenetics & …, 2017 - Springer
… are caused by mutations in DNA methyltransferase genes. … with mutations in DNA
methyltransferase genes have largely … likelihood that the DNA methyltransferase mutations will …

The DNMT3B DNA methyltransferase gene is mutated in the ICF immunodeficiency syndrome

RS Hansen, C Wijmenga, P Luo… - Proceedings of the …, 1999 - National Acad Sciences
… homologies to known DNA methyltransferases, we identified a genomic sequence in the
ICF region that contains the homologue of the mouse Dnmt3b methyltransferase gene. Using …

DNA methyltransferase gene dDnmt2 and longevity of Drosophila

MJ Lin, LY Tang, MN Reddy, CKJ Shen - Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2005 - ASBMB
… While the details of the molecular and cellular basis of dDnmt2 being a longevity gene
DNA methyltransferase gene family. Namely, a threshold level of expression of dDnmt2, a gene