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SUBMITTER: Orlanski S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4983829 | biostudies-literature | 2016 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Orlanski Shari S Labi Verena V Reizel Yitzhak Y Spiro Adam A Lichtenstein Michal M Levin-Klein Rena R Koralov Sergei B SB Skversky Yael Y Rajewsky Klaus K Cedar Howard H Bergman Yehudit Y
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20160418 18
There is ample evidence that somatic cell differentiation during development is accompanied by extensive DNA demethylation of specific sites that vary between cell types. Although the mechanism of this process has not yet been elucidated, it is likely to involve the conversion of 5mC to 5hmC by Tet enzymes. We show that a Tet2/Tet3 conditional knockout at early stages of B-cell development largely prevents lineage-specific programmed demethylation events. This lack of demethylation affects the e ...[more]