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CpG underrepresentation and the new bacterial CpG specific DNA methyltransferase M.MpeI

ABSTRACT: The CpG depleted Mycoplasma penetrans harbors a CpG specific C5 methyltransferase. The aim of this experiment was to confirm the specificity of the methyltransferase in vivo and in vitro. Genomic DNA from Mycoplasma penetrans and Escherichia coli genomic DNA that either was or was not methylated in vitro by M.MpeI were subjected to Illumina MiSeq bisulfite sequencing.

ORGANISM(S): Escherichia coli

SUBMITTER: Matthias Bochtler

PROVIDER: E-GEOD-41022 | biostudies-arrayexpress |

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress

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CpG underrepresentation and the bacterial CpG-specific DNA methyltransferase M.MpeI.

Wojciechowski Marek M Czapinska Honorata H Bochtler Matthias M

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20121217 1

Cytosine methylation promotes deamination. In eukaryotes, CpG methylation is thought to account for CpG underrepresentation. Whether scarcity of CpGs in prokaryotic genomes is diagnostic for methylation is not clear. Here, we report that Mycoplasms tend to be CpG depleted and to harbor a family of constitutively expressed or phase variable CpG-specific DNA methyltransferases. The very CpG poor Mycoplasma penetrans and its constitutively active CpG-specific methyltransferase M.MpeI were chosen fo ...[more]

PMID: 23248272

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CpG underrepresentation and the new bacterial CpG specific DNA methyltransferase M.MpeI

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CpG underrepresentation and the bacterial CpG-specific DNA methyltransferase M.MpeI.

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