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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: Biochim Biophys Acta. 2017 Sep 20;1868(2):439–448. doi: 10.1016/j.bbcan.2017.09.003

Figure 1. DNA methylation and DNA demethylation pathways.

Figure 1

DNA methylation (high left corner – blue characters) and DNA demethylation (active - red italic characters; passive - green characters) pathways. See text for details.

SAM: S-Adenosyl methionine; SAH: S-adenosylhomocysteine; DNMT: DNA methyltransferase; AID: activation-induced deaminase

APOBEC: apolipoprotein B mRNA-editing enzyme complex; TDG: thymine-DNA glycosylase; BER: Base excision repair