DNA demethylation by DNA repair

Active DNA demethylation underlies key facets of reproduction in flowering plants and mammals and serves a general genome housekeeping function in plants. A family of 5-methylcytosine DNA glycosylases catalyzes plant demethylation via the well-known DNA base-excision-repair process. Although the exi...

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Main Authors: Gehring, Mary (Contributor), Reik, Wolf (Author), Henikoff, Steven (Author)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Biology (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier Science Publishers, 2011-10-13T13:30:20Z.
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