| Literature DB >> 15814025 |
Sari Pennings1, James Allan, Colin S Davey.
Abstract
Recent mapping of nucleosome positioning on several long gene regions subject to DNA methylation has identified instances of nucleosome repositioning by this base modification. The evidence for an effect of CpG methylation on nucleosome formation and positioning in chromatin is reviewed here in the context of the complex sequence-structure requirements of DNA wrapping around the histone octamer and the role of this epigenetic mark in gene repression.Entities:
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Year: 2005 PMID: 15814025 DOI: 10.1093/bfgp/3.4.351
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Brief Funct Genomic Proteomic ISSN: 1473-9550