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Adding methyl groups to DNA is a way of regulating some genes and genomic sequences. Structural analysis reveals that the enzyme complex that mediates this process shows unexpected sequence specificity.

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  1. Anne C. Ferguson-Smith is in the Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3DY, UK. afsmith@mole.bio.cam.ac.uk,
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  2. John M. Greally is in the Departments of Medicine (Hematology) and Molecular Genetics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York 10461, USA. jgreally@aecom.yu.edu,
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Ferguson-Smith, A., Greally, J. Perceptive enzymes.Nature 449, 148–149 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1038/449148a

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