ISSN:
1476-4687
Source:
Nature Archives 1869 - 2009
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Medicine
,
Natural Sciences in General
,
Physics
Notes:
[Auszug] METHYLATION of DNA appears to have very important biological functions. In prokaryotes, one of its roles is to protect the organism's DNA from cleavage by sequence-specific nucleases which degrade incoming foreign DNA1, while in the nuclei of eukaryotes, changes in DNA methyl-ation patterns may ...
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/298422a0
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