Its activity helps copy a CG methylation pattern after DNA replication. Reduced MET1 function can therefore change heritable chromatin states while leaving the corresponding DNA base order unchanged; this separates an epigenetic mark from a sequence mutation. [ref]
Molecular Biology of the Cell, 4th edition by Bruce Alberts and others. Chapters 4–7, chromatin, replication and gene regulation
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