Histone modification can also attract DNA methyltransferases to initiate cytosine methylation, which in turn can reinforce histone modification patterns conducive to silencing. Experiments in ...

This complex, in conjunction with the inhibitory role of the exon junction complex, collectively shapes the distribution ... expression, DNA replication, and DNA and histone modification.

Although the genetic sequence is the same in every cell in the body, only a subset of those genes is expressed by each cell.