Automated description from the Alliance of Genome Resources (Release 8.0.0)
Enables DNA (cytosine-5-)-methyltransferase activity, acting on CpG substrates. Involved in transposable element silencing by piRNA-mediated DNA methylation and transposable element silencing by piRNA-mediated heterochromatin formation. Acts upstream of or within gene silencing by piRNA-directed DNA methylation; homologous chromosome pairing at meiosis; and transposable element silencing by heterochromatin formation. Located in nucleus.
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