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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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DNA global hypomethylation in EBV-transformed interphase nuclei.

TL;DR: An immunochemical technique was set up with the aim of demonstrating, in a population of mixed cells, the possibility of detecting the presence of individual nuclei containing hypomethylated DNA, on a cell-by-cell basis and opening the field for the analysis of fresh tumor samples by flow cytometry and microscopy.
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Chromatin and DNA sequences in defining promoters for transcription initiation

TL;DR: This review attempts to summarise these promoter features and discusses the available evidence pointing at their interactions in defining transcription initiation in developmental contexts.
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Transcriptional Regulation of the Human CYP1B1 Gene: EVIDENCE FOR INVOLVEMENT OF AN ARYL HYDROCARBON RECEPTOR RESPONSE ELEMENT IN CONSTITUTIVE EXPRESSION

TL;DR: The observed cell-specific differences in CYP1B1 constitutive expression are likely due to either 1) inaccessibility of the 5′-enhancer region in HepG2 cells to transcriptional activators due to a higher order chromatin structure that does not involve histone acetylation, or 2) the action of a repressor protein atcis-elements located outside of the –2296 to +25 region examined with the CYP 1B1 reporter constructs.
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Epigenetics in fertilization and preimplantation embryo development.

TL;DR: Some of the recent works which attempt to shed light into the importance of the dynamic epigenetic landscape observed during oocyte maturation and preimplantation embryo development in mammals are referenced.
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Targeted methylation of CMV and E1A viral promoters.

TL;DR: TargetedDNA methylation is able to efficiently silence susceptible viral promoters and provides an alternative strategy to study the impact of loci-specific DNA methylation in viral gene expression.
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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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