See Also: Clay County Medical Center(health)
Pipestone County Medical Center Avera Health(health)
Fulton County Health Center(health)
Armstrong County Health Center(health)
Washington County Health System(health)
Morton County Health System(health)
Morrow County Health District(health)
Community Health Center of Branch County(health)
Laurens County Health Care System(health)
Henry County Medical Center(health)

Clay County Medical Center (health) and DNA methylation (medicine)


Clay County Medical Center (health)


Clay County Medical Center is a hospital in Clay Center, Kansas (USA).





DNA methylation (medicine)


DNA methylation
<molecular biology> Process by which methyl groups are added to certain nucleotides in genomic DNA.

This affects gene expression, as methylated DNA is not easily transcribed. The degree of methylation is passed on to daughter strands at mitosis by maintainance DNA methylases. Accordingly, DNA methylation is thought to play an important developmental role in sequentially restricting the transcribable genes available to distinct cell lineages.

In bacteria, methylation plays an important role in the restriction systems, as restriction enzymes cannot cut sequences with certain specific methylations.