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Title

Epigenetic mechanisms of gene regulation / edited by Vicenzo E.A. Russo, Robert A. Martienssen, Arthur D. Riggs.

Publication

[Plainview, New York] : Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, 1996.

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Additional Authors

• Martienssen, Robert A.
• Riggs, Arthur D.
• Russo, V. E. A. (Vincenzo E. A.)

Description

xii, 692 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Cold Spring Harbor monograph series ; 32

Uniform Title

Cold Spring Harbor monograph series ; 32.

Subjects

• Gene Expression
• Genomic Imprinting
• DNA Methylation
• Epigenomics

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Introduction / A. D. Riggs, R. A. Matienssen and V. E. A. Russo -- DNA Methylation in Eukaryotes: 20 Years On / R. Holliday -- Overview of Epigenetic Mechanisms / A. D. Riggs and T. N. Porter -- Gene Silencing in Mammalian Cells / R. Holliday, T. Ho and R. Paulin -- DNA Methyltransferases in Mammalian Development and Genome Defense / T. H. Bestor -- The Mutational Burden of 5-Methylcytosine / A. S. Yang, P. A. Jones and A. Shibata -- Plant Methyltransferases and Their Targets in the Plant Genome / R. L. P. Adams, S. Pradhan and C. A. Johnson ... [et al.] -- Mechanism of DNA Demethylation in Vertebrates and Its Biological Significance / J.-P. Jost -- The Role of DNA Methylation in Plant Development / E. J. Finnegan -- Methylation-related Epigenetic Signals in Bacterial DNA / J. Casadesus and J. Torreblanca -- DNA Modification and Restriction: Selfish Behavior of an Epigenetic System / I. Kobayashi --
• Organization and Control of Imprinted Genes: The Common Features / J. F.-X. Ainscough and M. A. Surani -- Genomic Imprinting and Modifier Genes in the Mouse / J. Walter, T. Kruger and S. Engemann ... [et al.] -- Establishment of Imprinted Methylation Patterns during Development / R. Shemer and A. Razin -- X-Chromosome Inactivation and Epigenetic Mechanisms / A. D. Riggs and T. N. Porter -- X-Chromosome Inactivation: XCE and the Candidate Region for the X-Inactivation Center / P. Avner -- Epigenetic Silencing and Activation of a Maize r Gene / J. L. Kermicle -- b and pl Paramutation in Maize: Heritable Transcription States Programmed during Development / V. L. Chandler, K. M. Kubo and J. B. Hollick -- DNA Methylation of Flower Color Transgenes in Petunia hybrida / P. Meyer -- Position-effect Variegation in Drosophila: Recent Progress / S. Henikoff -- Control and Function of DNA Methylation in Neurospora crassa / A. T. Hagemann and E. U. Selker --
• Silencing of the Gene hph in Neurospora crassa / V. E. A. Russo, Y.-S. Lee and A. C. Codon -- Prokaryotic Model of Epigenetic Inactivation: Chromosomal Silencing in Bacillus subtilis Fusion Products / V. Grandjean, F. Le Hegarat and L. Hirschbein -- Stable Epigenetic States in Differentiated Plant Cells: Implications for Somaclonal Variation and Gene Silencing in Transgenic Plants / M. A. Matzke and A. J. M. Matzke -- Sense Cosuppression of Flower Color Genes: Metastable Morphology-based Phenotypes and the Prepattern-threshold Hypothesis / R. A. Jorgensen, Q. Que and J. J. English ... [et al.] -- Analysis of a Tobacco Transgene Locus That Triggers Both Transcriptional and Posttranscriptional Silencing / H. Vaucheret, T. Elmayan and P. Mourrain ... [et al.] -- Epigenetic Modifications and Gene Silencing in Plants / F. Meins, Jr. -- Transcriptional Silencing in the Fission Yeast: A Manifestation of Higher Order Chromosome Structure and Functions / R. C. Allshire --
• Transcriptional Silencing of the Yeast Mating-type Genes / S. G. Holmes, M. Braunstein and J. R. Broach -- Stable Chromatin States Regulating Homeotic Genes in Drosophila / V. Pirrotta -- The Role of Polycomb Group and Trithorax Group Chromatin Complexes in the Maintenance of Determined Cell States / R. Paro and P. J. Harte -- Histones, Histone Modifications, and the Inheritance of Chromatin Structure / S. U. Kass and A. P. Wolffe -- The Silencing of Human Immunodeficiency Virus / D. P. Bednarik -- CpG Suppression in HIV-1 Versus HIV-2: Correlation with Pathogenicity and Possible Implications for the Design of Antiretroviral Vaccines / J. W. Nyce -- Epigenetic Regulation of the Maize Spm Transposable Element / N. Fedoroff -- Epigenetic Silencing of Mu Transposable Elements in Maize / R. A. Martienssen -- App. Essentials of Plant Development / R. A. Martienssen -- App. Essentials of Mouse Development / A. D. Riggs --
• Paramutation: Directed Genetic Change / R. A. Brink, E. D. Styles and J. D. Axtell -- DNA Modification Mechanisms and Gene Activity during Development / R. Holliday and J. E. Pugh -- X Inactivation, Differentiation, and DNA Methylation / A. D. Riggs.

ISBN

0879694904

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