The p53 protein is responsible for monitoring genome integrity and is often mutated or inactivated during tumor progression. One possible method of inactivation is methylation at the CpG islands in the p53 gene promoter. CG nucleotides have a frequencey of 880 in comparison to other possible nucleotides causing the inactivation, which have a mean average of 3280. Does it appear that p53 could be regulated by methylation at CpG islands?
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Which of the following cytosines could be methylated? 5'-CA-3' 3'GT-5' 5'-CG-3' 5'-GC-3' I have examined the DNA of a human promoter and found that it is highly methylated at CpG islands. My hypothesis is that transcription of the downstream gene is: Not impacted by the promoter methylation pattern upregulated by this methylation downregulated by this methylation
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DNA methylation is a modification of DNA in which a methyl group is added to a base in a 5' CpG 3' nucleotide pair by DNA methyltransferase enzymes (DNMTs). DNA methylation can be an epigenetic phenomenon because it is heritable during cell division and alters gene expression without changing the DNA sequence. A CpG island is a region of DNA that has a higher frequency of the dinucleotide CG than that of the rest of the genome. Repressors bind to CpG islands and prevent their methylation, increasing transcription of nearby genes. The cytosine bases in CpG islands are usually unmethylated because activators bind to CpG islands and prevent their methylation. In the absence of activators, CpG islands become methylated. Methyl-CpG-binding proteins (MeCPs) bind to methylated CpG islands, resulting in chromatin silencing and a lower amount of transcription. During DNA replication, the pattern of methylation is copied onto the new DNA strand by a DNMT at the replication fork. Because methylation patterns are maintained through cell division, repression of gene expression by DNA methylation is usually long-term and is called gene silencing.
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