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PEImA is an interesting highly substituted polymer as it can be modified by methylation to poly ethyl 2- methyl imidazolium-1-yl iodide)acrylate) PEMeImA, via ester cleavage into the polyzwitterion poly(2- methylol-1-yl)acrylic acid) (PImAA), and – fimidazolium-1-yl(2-(methyl imidacrylate1-yl)acrylic acid) (PEMeImA) if both modification steps are carried out.

(3) DNA itself can be modified by methylation (Dobosy & Selker, 2001).

DNA, as well as histone proteins, can be modified by methylation on cytosines of CpG islands.

The CpG island is potential site to be modified by methylation.

In mammalian cells, the DNA molecules can be modified by methylation at the 5 position of cytosines, typically in a CpG dinucleotide context, which in turn can be oxidized to 5-hydroxymethylcytosine and higher oxidation states [ 15].

Many viral RNAs are modified by methylation of the N6 position of adenosine (m6A).

The second was to study WTH3 promoter activity that was modified by methylation.

Histone H3 is modified by methylation at lysines 4 and 36 at its N terminus and at lysine 79 in the globular domain of H3.

An important breakthrough in our understanding of the molecular basis for heterochromatin formation came with the discovery that the H3 histones in heterochromatin are modified by methylation on lysine 9 in the H3 N-terminal tail.

Since AIP1 is member of the Royal domain family that interacts with the chromatin remodeler LHP1 and with the DNA replication and transcription regulator ABAP1, it is reasonable to expect that AIP1 could bind to histones, whether they are modified by methylation or acetylation, or none.

Of importance, DNA methylation patterns established around implantation can be modified by further methylation or demethylation during subsequent stages of organogenesis [5].