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DNMT3A reads and connects histone H3K36me2 to DNA methylation

  • Wenqi Xu 1 ,
  • Jiahui Li 1 ,
  • Bowen Rong1 1 ,
  • Bin Zhao 1 ,
  • Mei Wang 2 ,
  • Ruofei Dai 1 ,
  • Qilong Chen 3 ,
  • Hang Liu 1 ,
  • Zhongkai Gu 1 ,
  • Shuxian Liu 1 ,
  • Rui Guo 1 ,
  • Hongjie Shen , 1 ,
  • Feizhen Wu , 1 ,
  • Fei Lan , 1
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  • 1. Key Laboratory of Birth Defects, Children’s Hospital, Fudan University, and Key Laboratory of Epigenetics, Institutes of Biomedical Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai 201102, China
  • 2. Department of Geriatrics, Shanghai General Hospital, Shanghai 201103, China
  • 3. Research Center for Chinese Traditional Medicine Complexity System, Shanghai University of Chinese Traditional Medicine, Shanghai 201203, China

Published date: 15 Feb 2020

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Wenqi Xu , Jiahui Li , Bowen Rong1 , Bin Zhao , Mei Wang , Ruofei Dai , Qilong Chen , Hang Liu , Zhongkai Gu , Shuxian Liu , Rui Guo , Hongjie Shen , Feizhen Wu , Fei Lan . DNMT3A reads and connects histone H3K36me2 to DNA methylation[J]. Protein & Cell, 2020 , 11(2) : 150 -154 . DOI: 10.1007/s13238-019-00672-y

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