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Facts about DNA (cytosine-5)-methyltransferase 3A.
May preferentially methylate DNA linker between 2 nucleosomal cores and is inhibited by histone H1. Plays a role in paternal and maternal imprinting.
Human | |
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Gene Name: | DNMT3A |
Uniprot: | Q9Y6K1 |
Entrez: | 1788 |
Belongs to: |
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class I-like SAM-binding methyltransferase superfamily |
64B1446 clone; DNA (cytosine-5-)-methyltransferase 3 alpha; DNA (cytosine-5)-methyltransferase 3A; DNA cytosine methyltransferase 3A2; DNA Methyltransferase 3 Alpha; DNA methyltransferase HsaIIIA; DNA MTase HsaIIIA; DNMT3A; DNMT3A2; EC 2.1.1.37; M.HsaIIIA; TBRS
Mass (kDA):
101.858 kDA
Human | |
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Location: | 2p23.3 |
Sequence: | 2; NC_000002.12 (25227874..25342590, complement) |
Highly expressed in fetal tissues, skeletal muscle, heart, peripheral blood mononuclear cells, kidney, and at lower levels in placenta, brain, liver, colon, spleen, small intestine and lung.
Nucleus. Cytoplasm. Accumulates in the major satellite repeats at pericentric heterochromatin.
PMID: 10433969 by Xie S., et al. Cloning, expression and chromosome locations of the human DNMT3 gene family.
PMID: 12138111 by Chen T., et al. A novel Dnmt3a isoform produced from an alternative promoter localizes to euchromatin and its expression correlates with active de novo methylation.