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DNA Methylation: Basic Mechanisms pp 125–175Cite as

De Novo Methylation, Long-Term Promoter Silencing, Methylation Patterns in the Human Genome, and Consequences of Foreign DNA Insertion

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Part of the book series: Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology ((CT MICROBIOLOGY,volume 301))

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This chapter presents a personal account of the work on DNA methylation in viral and mammalian systems performed in the author’s laboratory in the course of the past 30 years. The text does not attempt to give a complete and meticulous account of the work accomplished in many other laboratories; in that sense it is not a review of the field in a conventional sense. Since the author is also one of the editors of this series of Current Topics in Immunology and Microbiology on DNA methylation, to which contributions by many of our colleagues in this field have been invited, the author’s conscience is alleviated that he has not cited many of the relevant and excellent reports by others. The choice of viral model systems in molecular biology is well founded. Over many decades, viruses have proved their invaluable and pioneering role as tools in molecular genetics. When our interest turned to the demonstration of genome-wide patterns of DNA methylation, we focused mainly on the human genome. The following topics in DNA methylation will be treated in detail: (1) The de novo methylation of integrated foreign genomes; (2) the long-term gene silencing effect of sequence-specific promoter methylation and its reversal; (3) the properties and specificity of patterns of DNA methylation in the human genome and their possible relations to pathogenesis; (4) the long-range global effects on cellular DNA methylation and transcriptional profiles as a consequence of foreign DNA insertion into an established genome; (5) the patterns of DNA methylation can be considered part of a cellular defense mechanism against foreign or repetitive DNA; which role has food-ingested DNA played in the elaboration of this mechanism? The interest in problems related to DNA methylation has spread—like the mechanism itself—into many neighboring fields. The nature of the transcriptional programs orchestrating embryonal and fetal development, chromatin structure, genetic imprinting, genetic disease, X chromosome inactivation, and tumor biology are but a few of the areas of research that have incorporated studies on the importance of the hitherto somewhat neglected fifth nucleotide in many genomes. Even the fly researchers now have to cope with the presence of this nucleotide, in however small quantities it exists in the genome of their model organism, at least during embryonal development. The bulk of the experimental work accomplished in the author’s laboratory has been shouldered by many very motivated undergraduate and graduate students and by a number of talented postdoctoral researchers. Their contributions are reflected in the list of references in this chapter. We have also had the good luck to receive funding through a number or organizations as acknowledged.

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Doerfler, W. (2006). De Novo Methylation, Long-Term Promoter Silencing, Methylation Patterns in the Human Genome, and Consequences of Foreign DNA Insertion. In: Doerfler, W., Böhm, P. (eds) DNA Methylation: Basic Mechanisms. Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology, vol 301. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-31390-7_5

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