Illuminating Epigenetics with A FRET Based Biosensor
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Blog Post
...disorders.
A series of studies carried out on an isolated population in Sweden found that paternal grandfathers...in their DNA methylation patterns, either large increases or decreases. Hypermethylation of CpG islands... (pcDNA3-K9 histone methylation reporter) and K27 (pcDNA3-K27 histone methylation reporter) positions ...to recognise lysine 27 methylation. When tested in living cells where methylation of these sites was controlled...significantly different FRET levels between unmethylated and methylated states. Thus, this system is a reliable... transcription and inactivate them. Global hypomethylation, on the other hand, has also been implicated...immunoprecipitation, fluorescent in-situ hybridization, methylation-sensitive restriction enzyme digestion, DNA adenine...