Nature Communications (May 2021)

Impact of DNA methylation on 3D genome structure

  • Diana Buitrago,
  • Mireia Labrador,
  • Juan Pablo Arcon,
  • Rafael Lema,
  • Oscar Flores,
  • Anna Esteve-Codina,
  • Julie Blanc,
  • Nuria Villegas,
  • David Bellido,
  • Marta Gut,
  • Pablo D. Dans,
  • Simon C. Heath,
  • Ivo G. Gut,
  • Isabelle Brun Heath,
  • Modesto Orozco

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-23142-8
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 17

Abstract

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Multi-layered epigenetic regulation in higher eukaryotes makes it challenging to disentangle the individual effects of modifications on chromatin structure and function. Here, the authors expressed mammalian DNA methyltransferases in yeast, which have no DNA methylation, to show that methylation has intrinsic effects on chromatin structure.