Cytosine DNA methylation is a stable epigenetic mark that is crucial for diverse biological
processes, including gene and transposon silencing, imprinting and X chromosome …

DNA methylation has come of age. For more than 40 years, it has been known that
eukaryotes tag their DNA by the covalent addition of a methyl group to cytosine residues; …

Publisher Summary This chapter discusses eukaryotic DNA methylation and gene
expression. The methylation of DNA in animal cells is a postreplicative process involving the …

DNA and histone methylation are linked and subjected to mitotic inheritance in mammals.
Yet how methylation is propagated and maintained between successive cell divisions is not …

DNA methylation in Drosophila melanogaster is restricted temporally during development
and occurs at a significantly lower frequency than in mammals. Thus, the regulatory …

From a fertilised egg to a mature organism, cells divide and accumulate epigenetic
information, which is faithfully passed on to daughter cells. DNA methylation consolidates …

DNA methylation is an important modification of DNA that plays a role in genome
management and in regulating gene expression during development. Methylation is carried …

DNA methylation is a crucial epigenetic modification of the genome that is involved in
regulating many cellular processes. These include embryonic development, transcription …

DNA CpG methylation can cooperate with histone H3 lysine 9 (H3-K9) methylation in
heterochromatin formation and gene silencing. Trimethylation of H3-K9 by the recently …

Plants contain three distinct DNA methyltransferase types that are responsible for the
establishment and maintenance of cytosine methylation patterns at heterochromatic and …