Cytosine methylation in gene-silencing mechanisms

¹Plant Biology Department, University of California Berkeley 94720.

|June 1, 1991

Abstract:

Cytosine methylation is associated with gene-silencing mechanisms in a number of eukaryotic organisms. Recent studies directed at the involvement of methylation in promoter inactivation, X-chromosome and duplicate sequence inactivation and in chromatin structure changes, are presented.

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