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You transfer the DAM gene to the telomere of yeast. What will be your expected result?(a) Methylation at the A sites in specific sequence(b) Methylation at the C sites in specific sequence(c) No methylation at the A sites in specific sequence(d) No methylation at the C sites in specific sequenceThe question was asked at a job interview.I want to ask this question from Transcription in Eukaryotes : Gene Silencing at Telomere topic in section Gene Expression : Transcription Prokaryotes of Cytogenetics

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The correct answer is (c) No methylation at the A sites in specific sequence

The BEST EXPLANATION: DAM is a METHYLASE that methylates the A of GATC sequence. When expressed in Yeast it methylated the yeast DNA, however, in telomere the EXPRESSION is blocked by the telomere silencing effect. Thus, we don’t get methylated DNA.



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