Endogenous retroviruses are repetitive sequences found abundantly in mammalian genomes which are capable of modulating host gene expression. Nevertheless, most endogenous retrovirus copies are under tight epigenetic control via histone-repressive modifications and DNA methylation. Here we describe a common method used in our laboratory to detect, quantify, and compare mammalian endogenous retrovirus DNA methylation. More specifically we describe methylated DNA immunoprecipitation (MeDIP) followed by quantitative PCR.
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Rebollo, R., & Mager, D. L. (2016). Methylated DNA immunoprecipitation analysis of mammalian endogenous retroviruses. In Methods in Molecular Biology (Vol. 1400, pp. 377–385). Humana Press Inc. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-3372-3_23
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