... play a critical role in progression of the cellcycle and the differentiation of cells [11,12].The methylation of DNA plays a role in the regulation of gene expression [13,14], genomic imprinting ... University of Tokyo, JapanThe Sp family is a family of transcription factors thatbind to cis-elements in the promoter regions of variousgenes. Regulation of transcription by Sp proteins is basedon ... available dataindicate that the identification by Bigey et al.ofmanyCorrespondence to K. K. Yokoyama, Gene Engineering Division,Department of Biological Systems, BioResource Center, TsukubaInstitute,...