DNA Methylation: Basic Mechanisms

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Doerfler, Walter (Editor), Böhm, Petra (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2006.
• Series: Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology, 301
• Subjects: Medicine.; Human genetics.; Biomedicine.; Human Genetics.

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Table of Contents:

• The Almost-Forgotten Fifth Nucleotide in DNA: An Introduction
• Pattern Formation
• Replication and Translation of Epigenetic Information
• DNA Methyltransferases: Facts, Clues, Mysteries
• DNA Methylation in Plants
• Determinant of Promoter Activity
• De Novo Methylation, Long-Term Promoter Silencing, Methylation Patterns in the Human Genome, and Consequences of Foreign DNA Insertion
• DNA Methyltransferases
• Establishment and Maintenance of DNA Methylation Patterns in Mammals
• Molecular Enzymology of Mammalian DNA Methyltransferases
• Epigenetic Phenomena
• Familial Hydatidiform Molar Pregnancy: The Germline Imprinting Defect Hypothesis?
• Dual Inheritance
• Mutagenesis and Repair
• Mutagenesis at Methylated CpG Sequences
• Cytosine Methylation and DNA Repair.