Permissive transcriptional activity at the centromere through pockets of DNA hypomethylation.

DNA methylation is a hallmark of transcriptional silencing, yet transcription has been reported at the centromere. To address this apparent paradox, we employed a fully sequence-defined ectopic human centromere (or neocentromere) to investigate the relationship between DNA methylation and transcript...

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Main Authors: Nicholas C Wong, Lee H Wong, Julie M Quach, Paul Canham, Jeffrey M Craig, Jenny Z Song, Susan J Clark, K H Andy Choo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2006-02-01
Series:PLoS Genetics
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC1361766?pdf=render