Combing over heritable gene silencing

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作者
Damelin, M [1 ]
Ooi, SKT [1 ]
Bestor, TH [1 ]
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[1] Columbia Univ, Coll Phys & Surg, Dept Genet & Dev, New York, NY 10032 USA
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10.1038/nsmb0206-100
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Q5 [生物化学]; Q7 [分子生物学];
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071010 ; 081704 ;
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Recent publications suggest that certain proteins of the Polycomb group interact with DNA methyltransferases. This may connect the two systems that are known to mediate somatic inheritance of states of gene expression during development.
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