Histone methylation and DNA methylation: a missed pas de deux in invertebrates?
Several Authors have reported that histone methylation interacts with DNA methylation creating aself-propagating epigenetic cycle for long-term transcriptional repression of methylated genomecompartments. This phenomenon, observed in plant and vertebrate genomes, does not appear to holdtrue in inver...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
2005-12-01
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| Series: | Invertebrate Survival Journal |
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| Online Access: | http://www.isj.unimo.it/articoli/ISJ110.pdf |
| Summary: | Several Authors have reported that histone methylation interacts with DNA methylation creating aself-propagating epigenetic cycle for long-term transcriptional repression of methylated genomecompartments. This phenomenon, observed in plant and vertebrate genomes, does not appear to holdtrue in invertebrates. In particular, both structural and functional evidences suggest that, ininvertebrates, DNA methylation and histone methylation do not interact, thus inhibiting the intimate pasde deux observed in other eukaryotes. |
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| ISSN: | 1824-307X |