Abstract
The human β-globin gene is expressed - but the human fetal (γ) and embryonic (ε) globin genes are not - in an induced mouse erythroleukemia cell line (M11-X) that contains most of human chromosome 11. A 24-hr exposure of M11-X cells to 5-azacytidine before induction causes 'global' DNA hypomethylation but selective activation of the human γ-globin genes. Genomic DNA is remethylated 2-3 days after exposure to 5-azacytidine, but sequences near the human and mouse globin genes remain hypomethylated, suggesting that the remethylation process is inhibited in these regions.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 6618-6622 |
| Number of pages | 5 |
| Journal | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America |
| Volume | 81 |
| Issue number | 21 I |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 1984 |
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