id | GO:0006306   Detailed information |
---|---|
  name | DNA methylation |
  namespace | biological_process |
  def | "The covalent transfer of a methyl group to either N-6 of adenine or C-5 or N-4 of cytosine." [GOC:ems, ISBN:0198506732 "Oxford Dictionary of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology"] |
  subset | gosubset_prok |
  xref | Wikipedia:DNA_methylation |
  is_a | GO:0006305 ! DNA alkylation |
  is_a | GO:0040029 ! regulation of gene expression, epigenetic |
  is_a | GO:0043414 ! macromolecule methylation |
  DPGLEAN02565
  DPGLEAN11079
  DPGLEAN15841