DNA methylation and its possible biological roles

A Razin, J Friedman - Progress in nucleic acid research and molecular …, 1981 - Elsevier
Publisher Summary The chapter discusses on the DNA methylation and its possible
biological roles. The pattern of DNA methylation is species-specific. In the DNA of some …

Dna Methylation in Eukaryote

RLP Adams, RH Burdon… - Critical Reviews in …, 1982 - Taylor & Francis
In addition to the four bases incorporated into DNA during semiconservative replication
there is a variable number of other bases present in DNA in small amounts. These arise by …

[引用][C] DNA methylation and gene activity

W Doerfler - Annual review of biochemistry, 1983 - annualreviews.org
DNA methylation and its functional significance, particularly in eukaryotic systems, have
become very active areas of research. Although the biochem istry of DNA methylation has …

25 DNA Methylation

S Hattman - The enzymes, 1981 - Elsevier
Publisher Summary Almost all biological macromolecules undergo some form of processing
event subsequent to their biosynthesis. These processes such as cleaving, phosphorylation …

Gene methylation patterns and expression

J Yisraeli, M Szyf - DNA methylation: biochemistry and biological …, 1984 - Springer
Three basic approaches have been employed in the study of the effect of DNA methylation
of particular genes on their expression. One approach uses chemicals that cause …

DNA methylation—a regulatory signal in eukaryotic gene expression

W Doerfler - Journal of General Virology, 1981 - microbiologyresearch.org
There are at least two systems in which inhibitory effects of DNA modification on DNA-
protein interactions have been unambiguously demonstrated.(i) At sequences specifically …

[图书][B] DNA methylation: molecular biology and biological significance

J Jost, H Saluz - 2013 - books.google.com
The occurrence of 5-methylcytosine in DNA was first described in 1948 by Hotchkiss (see
first chapter). Recognition of its possible physiologi cal role in eucaryotes was first …

Methylation of DNA in prokaryotes

M Noyer-Weidner, TA Trautner - DNA methylation: molecular biology and …, 1993 - Springer
A much wider variety of biological functions of postreplicative DNA methylation is observed
in prokaryotes than in eukaryotes. In eukaryotes DNA methylation is primarily a means of the …

DNA methylation at asymmetric sites is associated with numerous transition mutations.

EU Selker, JN Stevens - Proceedings of the National …, 1985 - National Acad Sciences
We describe two unusual 5S RNA regions from Neurospora crassa that are tightly linked.
Sequence analysis suggests that these genes or pseudogenes, which we designate zeta …

DNA methylation patterns formation and function

A Razin, M Szyf - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA)-Gene Structure …, 1984 - Elsevier
The occurrence of 5-methylcytosine (m S Cyt) and Nr-methyladenine (m6Ade) as minor
bases in DNA has been known for more than 35 years [1-3]. The fact that DNA methylation is …