Dnmt2-dependent methylomes lack defined DNA methylation patterns

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 110, Issue 21, 2013, Pages 8627-8631

  Raddatz, Günter ^a   Guzzardo, Paloma M ^b   Olova, Nelly ^c   Fantappié, Marcelo Rosado ^d   Rampp, Markus ^e   Schaefer, Matthias ^a   Reik, Wolf ^c,f,g   Hannon, Gregory J ^b,h   Lyko, Frank ^a  

^a GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER   (Germany)

^b Howard Hughes Medical Institute Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Cold Spring Harbor   (United States)

^c BABRAHAM INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^d FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^e MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR PLASMAPHYSIK   (Germany)

^f WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^h HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Epigenetics; RNA methylation

Indexed keywords

CYTOSINE; DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE; DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE 2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEAMINATION; DNA METHYLATION; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOME; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI;

EPIGENETICS; RNA METHYLATION;

ANIMALS; DNA (CYTOSINE-5-)-METHYLTRANSFERASE; DNA METHYLATION; DNA, PROTOZOAN; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI;

EID: 84878136507     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1306723110     Document Type: Article

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