Stability of patch methylation and its impact in regions of transcriptional initiation and elongation

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 17, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 5897-5904

  Hsieh, Chih Lin ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELONGATION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; CELL MUTANT; CHROMATIN; DNA REPLICATION; METHYLATION; MINICHROMOSOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN STABILITY; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

EID: 0030793717     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.17.10.5897     Document Type: Article

References (27)

1. Almouzni, G., and A. P. Wolffe. 1993. Replication-coupled chromatin assembly is required for the repression of basal transcription in vivo. Genes Dev. 7:2013-2047.
2. Antequera, F., J. Boyes, and A. Bird. 1990. High levels of de novo methylation and altered chromatin structure at CpG islands in cell lines. Cell 62:503-514.
3. Bestor, T. H., and G. L. Verdine. 1994. DNA methyltransferases. Curr. Opin. Cell Biol. 6:380-389.
4. Cedar, H. 1988. DNA methylation and gene activity. Cell 53:3-4.
5. Engler P., A. Weng, and U. Storb. 1993. Influence of CpG methylation and target spacing on V(D)J recombination in a transgenic substrate. Mol. Cell. Biol. 13:571-577.
6. Ernberg, I., K. Falk, J. Minarovits, P. Busson, T. Tursz, M. G. Masucci, and G. Klein. 1989. The role of methylation in the phenotype-dependent modulation of Epstein-Barr nuclear antigen 2 and latent membrane protein genes in cells latently infected with Epstein-Barr virus. J. Gen. Virol. 70: 2989-3002.
7. Graessmann, M., and A. Graessmann. 1993. DNA methylation, chromatin structure and the regulation of gene expression, p. 404-424. In J. P. Jost and H. P. Saluz (ed.), DNA methylation: molecular biology and biological significance. BirkHauser Verlag, Basel, Switzerland.
8. Hirt, B. 1967. Selective extraction of polyoma DNA from infected mouse cultures. J. Mol. Biol. 26:365-369.
9. Hsieh, C.-L. 1994. Dependence of transcriptional repression on CpG methylation density. Mol. Cell. Biol. 14:5487-5494.
10. Hsieh, C.-L., and M. R. Lieber. 1992. CpG methylated minichromosomes become inaccessible for V(D)J recombination after undergoing replication. EMBO J. 11:315-325.
11. Hsieh, C.-L., R. P. McCloskey, and M. R. Lieber. 1992. V(D)J recombination on minichromosomes is not affected by transcription. J. Biol. Chem. 267: 15613-15619.
12. Jost, J. P., and J. Hofsteenge. 1992. The repressor MDBP-2 is a member of the historic H1 family that binds preferentially in vitro and in vivo to methylated nonspecific DNA sequences. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 89:9499-9503.
13. Kamakaka, R. T., M. Bulger, P. D. Kaufman, B. Stillman, and J. T. Kadonaga. 1996. Postreplicative chromatin assembly by Drosophila and human chromatin assembly factor 1. Mol. Cell. Biol. 16:810-817.
14. Kass, S. U., J. P. Goddard, and R. L. P. Adams. 1993. Inactive chromatin spreads from a focus of methylation. Mol. Cell. Biol. 13:7372-7379.
15. Kass, S. U., N. Landsberger, and A. P. Wolffe. 1997. DNA methylation directs a time dependent repression of transcription initiation. Curr. Biol. 7:157-165.
16. Keshet, I., J. Lieman-Hurwitz, and H. Cedar. 1986. DNA methylation affects the formation of active chromatin. Cell 44:535-543.
17. Langner, K.-D., L. Vardimon, D. Renz, and W. Doerfler. 1984. DNA methylation of three 5′ C-C-G-G 3′ sites in the promoter and 5′ region inactivates the E2a gene of adenovirus type 2. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 81:2950-2954.
18. Leonhardt, H., A. W. Page, H.-U. Weier, and T. H. Bestor. 1992. A targeting sequence directs DNA methyltransferase to sites of DNA replication in mammalian nuclei. Cell 71:865-873.
19. Lewis, J. D., R. R. Meehan, W. J. Henzel, I. Maurer-Fogy, P. Jeppesen, F. Klein, and A. Bird. 1992. Purification, sequence, and cellular localization of a novel chromosomal protein that binds to methylated DNA. Cell 69:1-20.
20. Meehan, R. R., J. D. Lewis, S. McKay, E. L. Kleiner, and A. P. Bird. 1989. Identification of a mammalian protein that binds specifically to DNA containing methylated CpGs. Cell 58:499-507.
21. Minarovits, J., S. Minarovits-Kormuta, B. Ehlin-Henriksson, K. Falk, G. Klein, and I. Ernberg. 1991. Host cell phenotype-dependent methylation patterns of Epstein-Barr virus DNA. J. Gen. Virol. 72:1591-1599.
22. Nan, X., F. J. Campoy, and A. Bird. 1997. MeCP2 is a transcriptional repressor with abundant binding sites in genomic chromatin. Cell 88:471-481.
23. Razin, A., and H. Cedar. 1991. DNA methylation and gene expression. Microbiol. Rev. 55:451-458.
24. Razin, A., and T. Kafri. 1994. DNA methylation from embryo to adult. Prog. Nucleic Acid Res. Mol. Biol. 48:53-81.
25. Smith, S., and B. Stillman. 1991. Stepwise assembly of chromatin during DNA replication in vitro. EMBO J. 10:971-980.
26. Toth, M., U. Lichtenberg, and W. Doerfler. 1989. Genomic sequencing reveals a 5-methylcytosine-free domain in active promoters and the spreading of preimposed methylation patterns. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 86:3728-3732.
27. Wigler, M., R. Sweet, G. K. Sim, B. Wold, A. Pellicer, E. Lacy, T. Maniatis, S. Silverstein, and R. Axel. 1979. Transformation of mammalian cells with genes from prokaryotes and eukaryotes. Cell 16:777-785.