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The essentials of DNA methylation.

Adrian Bird
- 10 Jul 1992 - 
- Vol. 70, Iss: 1, pp 5-8
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This article is published in Cell.The article was published on 1992-07-10. It has received 928 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: DNA methylation & Methylation.

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Evaluation of methylation degree from formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded DNA extract by field-amplified sample injection capillary electrophoresis with UV detection.

TL;DR: The first capillary electrophoresis method able to measure global methylation in formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded (FFPE) DNA extracts is developed, useful for large-scale applications to determine the implications of genomic DNA methylation levels in tumorigenesis.
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Biological and biochemical modulation of DNA methylation.

TL;DR: This review will focus onDNA methylation and DNA methyltransferases with emphasis on how biological and biochemical factors such as histone modifications and noncoding RNAs might play a role in modulating DNA methylation.
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Sickle Cell Disease: Present and Future Treatment

TL;DR: This review will briefly highlight the major aspects of the conventional treatment of sickle cell disease, address the present use of hydroxyurea in more depth, and succinctly preview what the near-term future of treatment may bring.
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GFAP gene methylation in different neural cell types from rat brain.

TL;DR: The methylation status of one of the seven CG sites of the ‘neuroectoderm‐specific domain’ was analyzed and it was found that the −1176 site is highly demethylated in astroglial, oligodendroglials and neuronal cells, but heavily methylated in microglial and fibroblast cells.
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Gene control of flowering time in higher plants

TL;DR: A lot of achievements have been made recently in gene control for the determination of flowering time, and some new advances of such researches related to the work and the interesting field are reviewed.
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Targeted mutation of the DNA methyltransferase gene results in embryonic lethality.

TL;DR: Results indicate that while a 3-fold reduction in levels of genomic m5C has no detectable effect on the viability or proliferation of ES cells in culture, a similar reduction of DNA methylation in embryos causes abnormal development and embryonic lethality.
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CpG-rich islands and the function of DNA methylation

Adrian Bird
- 01 May 1986 - 
TL;DR: It is likely that most vertebrate genes are associated with ‘HTF islands’—DNA sequences in which CpG is abundant and non-methylated; however, highly tissue-specific genes, though, usually lack islands.
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Purification, sequence, and cellular localization of a novel chromosomal protein that binds to Methylated DNA

TL;DR: This work reports the identification, purification, and cDNA cloning of a novel MeCP called MeCP2, which unlike MeCP1, the new protein is able to bind to DNA that contains a single methyl-CpG pair.
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Multiple new phenotypes induced in 10T1/2 and 3T3 cells treated with 5-azacytidine.

TL;DR: Three new mesenchymal phenotypes were expressed in cultures of Swiss 3T3 and C3H/10T1/2CL8 mouse cells treated with 5-azacytidine or 5-aza-2'-deoxycytidine, implying that cell division was obligatory for the expression of the new phenotypes.
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DNA methylation inhibits transcription indirectly via a methyl-CpG binding protein

Joan Boyes, +1 more
- 22 Mar 1991 - 
TL;DR: Repression of transcription in vitro for four different promoters was shown to be an indirect effect and the mediator of repression had properties indistinguishable from those of a methyl-CpG binding protein (MeCP-1) that has been previously identified.
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