Wednesday, February 3, 2016
We started researching methylation and restriction enymes. Prokaryotic cells protect their DNA by methylating it. Our next step will be to begin creating a control DNA strand with known protected DNA.
References
Moore, L., Le, Thuc., & Fan, G. (2013). DNA Methylation and Its Basic Function. Neuropsychopharmacology Reviews, 2013(38), 23 - 38.