Cytosine methylation in gene-silencing mechanisms

被引：26

作者：

Chomet, Paul S. ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Univ Calif Berkeley, Dept Plant Biol, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA

来源：

CURRENT OPINION IN CELL BIOLOGY | 1991年 / 3卷 / 03期

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D O I：

10.1016/0955-0674(91)90071-6

中图分类号：

Q2 [细胞生物学];

学科分类号：

071009 ; 090102 ;

摘要：

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.

引用

页码：438 / 443

页数：6

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