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Queen Mary University of LondonORCID 0009-0007-9833-1199Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints
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Manuel Moreno, Pedro Romero Charria, Lan Xu…·Alex de Mendoza
This study identifies eukaryotic retrotransposons that encode prokaryotic-like DNA adenine methyltransferases and shows their adaptation to host 6mA-associated chromatin.
Pedro Romero Charria, Cristina Navarrete, Vladimir Y. Ovchinnikov…·Alex de Mendoza
The paper profiles 6mA methylation in 18 eukaryotes and finds it is linked to transcription and associated with H3K4me3-enriched nucleosomes, but is lost in major multicellular lineages.
Luke A. Sarre, Giselle Azucena Gastellou Peralta, Pedro Romero Charria…·Alex de Mendoza
The paper investigates the evolutionary origins of DNA methylation, finding it was likely acquired from bacterial donors to silence transposable and viral elements across eukaryotes.