Duckweed found to differentially mark old and new transposons without DNA methylation
Despite this, Marí-Ordóñez and his team show that Spirodela does use DNA methylation and histone modifications to silence ...
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Repressed but ready to go: How bivalency holds developmental genes in a poised state for expression
As well as being essential in the precise packaging of DNA into the space of the nucleus, histone proteins are also the site of modifications, chemical additions referred to as epigenetic marks ...
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Linking DNA methylation and histone modification: patterns and paradigms
The basic pattern of genomic DNA methylation is established at the time of embryo implantation through a wave of de novo methylation, but CpG islands are protected through a mechanism that ...