num_pages: 448
description: Here is an important work that covers the ongoing current research and major advances made in the field of RNA and DNA modification. It assesses the developments in the capping and methylation of messenger RNA and examines the structure and function of ribosome RNA methylation and its relevance to ribosomal structure. Featured are stimulating reports on DNA methylation in fungi and plants, genetic instability in Neurospora , the role of DNA methylation and the control of gene expression. The roles of DNA methylation in differentiation and tumorigenesis, in particular, are discussed, focusing on its potential in cell memory and the stabilization of transcriptionally incompetent states.
language: English
title: Nucleic Acid Methylation
titlecomplete: Nucleic Acid Methylation (UCLA Symposia on Molecular and Cellular Biology)
publisher: Wiley