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Cellular differentiation, cytidine analogs and DNA methylation

Peter A. Jones, +1 more
- 01 May 1980 - 
- Vol. 20, Iss: 1, pp 85-93
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Results provide experimental evidence for a role for DNA modification in differentiation, and suggest that cytidine analogs containing an altered 5 position perturb previously established methylation patterns to yield new cellular phenotypes.
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This article is published in Cell.The article was published on 1980-05-01. It has received 1722 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: DNA methylation & Zebularine.

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Reactivation of an inactive human X chromosome: evidence for X inactivation by DNA methylation

TL;DR: Since 5-azacytidine treatment results in hypomethylation of DNA, DNA methylation may be a mechanism of human X chromosome inactivation.
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DNA methylation and chromatin modification.

TL;DR: Data suggest that DNA methylation can pattern chromatin modification, and that inhibition of histone deacetylases by specific inhibitors can reactivate endogenous genes or reporter constructs previously silenced by DNA methylations.
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Cooperativity between DNA methyltransferases in the maintenance methylation of repetitive elements.

TL;DR: It is concluded that ongoing de novo methylation by DnMT3a and/or Dnmt3b compensates for inefficient maintenancemethylation byDnmt1 of these endogenous repetitive sequences.
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