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 …

Studies of DNA methylation in animals

A Bird, P Tate, X Nan, J Campoy… - Journal of Cell …, 1995 - journals.biologists.com
… and function of DNA méthylation in vertebrate animals using three … DNA. Such proteins can
be viewed as ‘receptors’ of the … DNA methylation and the frequency of CpG in animal DNA. …

DNA methylation in animal development

RR Meehan - Seminars in cell & developmental biology, 2003 - Elsevier
… to have a methyl-CpG binding domain (MBD) that could bind a single methyl CpG pair, and
to … A general model for indirect repression by DNA methylation is that methyl CpG pairs act as …

[HTML][HTML] Epigenetic modulation of DNA methylation by nutrition and its mechanisms in animals

N Zhang - Animal nutrition, 2015 - Elsevier
… Alterations in DNA methylation profiles can lead to changes in … of DNA methylation that
results in the addition of methyl groups to DNA; the possible ways including methyl donors, DNA

[HTML][HTML] Role of methionine on epigenetic modification of DNA methylation and gene expression in animals

N Zhang - Animal Nutrition, 2018 - Elsevier
… Consistent with the hypermethylation in specific CpG sites, the 15-d methionine treatment
facilitated the connection of methyl CpG binding protein 2 (MeCP2) and the reelin promoter (…

Computational approaches for understanding the evolution of DNA methylation in animals

SV Yi, MAD Goodisman - Epigenetics, 2009 - Taylor & Francis
DNA methylation in different animals generate many questions such as: Why does DNA
methylation exist in some animalsMethyl CpG-binding proteins and transcriptional repression. …

Assessing DNA methylation levels in animals: choosing the right tool for the job

C Couldrey, V Cave - Animal genetics, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
… epigenetic modification such as DNA methylation, the last 10 … before beginning analysis
of DNA methylation in animals. It is … methods of analysing DNA methylation in animals, when …

Functions for DNA methylation in vertebrates

AP Bird - Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative …, 1993 - symposium.cshlp.org
… Vertebrates are exceptional among animals in that their … viral DNA but have recruited the
DNA methylation system for … DNA methylation and the frequency of CpG in animal DNA. …

DNA methylation studies in cattle

J Halušková, B Holečková, J Staničová - Journal of Applied Genetics, 2021 - Springer
DNA methylation represents an epigenetic modification which is essential for genomic stability
and maintenance of development. Recently, DNA methylation … and breeding of animals to …

Patterns of DNA methylation in animals: an ecotoxicological perspective

JA Head - Integrative and Comparative Biology, 2014 - academic.oup.com
… In the next sections, I summarize what is known about DNA methylation in animal species
other than the mammalian models typically used in biomedical research. I focus on epigenetic …