Evolving insights on how cytosine methylation affects protein-DNA binding

Briefings in Functional Genomics

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 61-73

  Machado, Ana Carolina Dantas ^a   Zhou, Tianyin ^a   Rao, Satyanarayan ^a   Goel, Pragya ^a   Rastogi, Chaitanya ^b   Lazarovici, Allan ^b   Bussemaker, Harmen J ^b   Rohs, Remo ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

5 methylcytosine; DNA methylation; DNase i endonuclease; Epigenetics; Protein DNA interactions; Transcription factors

Indexed keywords

5 METHYLCYTOSINE; CYTOSINE; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE I; DNA; DNA BASE; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; ENDONUCLEASE; METHYL GROUP; PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; NUCLEOSOME; PROTEIN BINDING;

ARTICLE; BINDING ASSAY; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; CPG ISLAND; DNA METHYLATION; DNA PROTEIN COMPLEX; DNA STRUCTURE; EPIGENETICS; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOSOME; PROTEIN CLEAVAGE; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; ANIMAL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; METABOLISM; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CYTOSINE; DNA METHYLATION; HUMANS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NUCLEOSOMES; PROTEIN BINDING; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 84922424278     PISSN: 20412649     EISSN: 20412657     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bfgp/elu040     Document Type: Article

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