Recognition of chromatin state helps couple DNA methylation to histone methylation, reinforcing a locally repressive environment. This is an interaction between two kinds of molecular mark, rather than conversion of one mark into the other. [ref]
Non-CG methylation patterns shape the epigenetic landscape in Arabidopsis by Hume Stroud and others. 2014, chromomethylases and non-CG methylation
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