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Overview: DNA methylation is an epigenetic event that affects cell function by altering gene expression and refers to the covalent addition of a methyl group, catalyzed by DNA methyltransferase (DNMT), to the 5-carbon of cytosine in a CpG dinucleotide. Methods for DNA methylation analysis can be divided roughly into two types: global and gene-specific methylation analysis. For global methylation analysis, there are methods which measure the overall level of methyl cytosines in genome such as chromatographic methods and methyl accepting capacity assay. For gene-specific methylation analysis, a large number of techniques have been developed. Most early studies used methylation sensitive restriction enzymes to digest DNA followed by Southern detection or PCR amplification. Recently, bisulfite reaction based methods have become very popular such as methylation specific PCR (MSP), bisulfite genomic sequencing PCR. Additionally, in order to identify unknown methylation hot-spots or methylated CpG islands in the genome, several of genome-wide screen methods have been invented such as Restriction Landmark Genomic Scanning for Methylation (RLGS-M), and CpG island microarray.
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  • Methyltransferase-based single-promoter analysis assay (MSPA) (Epigenome NoE)  new
    Methylation-sensitive promoter analysis allows for the study of unmethylated CpG islands by treatment of nuclei with the CpG-specific DNA methyltransferase SssI (M.SssI), followed by genomic bisulfite sequencing of individual progeny DNA molecules. This gives single molecule resolution over the promoter and allows for the physical linkage between binding sites on individual promoter molecules to be maintained.
    http://www.epigenome-noe.net/researchtools/protoco...
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  • DNA-Methyltransferase Assay (Issa Lab)
    This assay can be used to measure methyltransferase activity in small, snap frozen pieces of tissue (e.g. colon polyps), or in cultured cells
    http://www.mdanderson.org/departments/methylation/...
    Added: Tue May 14 2002, Hits: 2099, Reviews: 0  Write review   Cached
  • In Situ Immunodetection of 5-methylcytosine using Anti-Methylcytosine Antibody (Pat Heslop-Harrison, Molecular Cytogenetics, University of Leicester)
    Use anti-methylcytosine antibody to detect DNA methylation along chromosome.
    http://www.le.ac.uk/bl/phh4/immuno.htm
    Added: Sat Mar 27 2004, Hits: 1497, Reviews: 0  Write review   Cached
  • Methylation Analyis using Restriction Enzyme Digestion (Methods.info)
    This is a classical method of methylation analysis based on the property of some restriction enzymes to be unable to cut methylated DNA.
    http://www.methods.info/Methods/DNA_methylation/Re...
    Added: Sat Dec 20 2003, Hits: 3104, Reviews: 0  Write review   Cached
  • Methylation analyis using Restriction Enzyme Digestion
    This is a classical method of methylation analysis based on the property of some restriction enzymes to be unable to cut methylated DNA. Since in eukaryotic DNA (or actually in mammalian DNA) only cytosine in CG context can be methylated, the restriction enzymes with CG sequences within their restriction sites come in question.
    http://www.methods.info/Methods/DNA_methylation/Re...
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  • RLGS protocol (Makoto Kawase)
    Detailed Restriction Landmark Genomic Scanning (RLGS) protocol. Although this protocol is for plant genome, it can also be applied to other genome. This technique has been used for genome-wide methylation analysis and has the name of Restriction Landmark Genomic Scanning for Methylation (RLGS-M).
    http://www.geocities.jp/millet_kawase/RLGS/protoco...
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  • Southern Blot DNA Methylation Analysis (Issa Lab)
    http://www.mdanderson.org/departments/methylation/...
    Added: Tue May 14 2002, Hits: 1446, Reviews: 0  Write review   Cached
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