Nature Communications (Jun 2020)

Genome-wide analysis in the mouse embryo reveals the importance of DNA methylation for transcription integrity

  • Thomas Dahlet,
  • Andrea Argüeso Lleida,
  • Hala Al Adhami,
  • Michael Dumas,
  • Ambre Bender,
  • Richard P. Ngondo,
  • Manon Tanguy,
  • Judith Vallet,
  • Ghislain Auclair,
  • Anaïs F. Bardet,
  • Michael Weber

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-16919-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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DNA methyltrasferases play important role during mouse embryo development. Here the authors reveal the consequences of genetic inactivation of Dnmt1, Dnmt3a and Dnmt3b on the methylome and transcriptome of mouse embryos genome-wide.