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SUBMITTER: Cimmino L
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3244690 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Cimmino Luisa L Abdel-Wahab Omar O Levine Ross L RL Aifantis Iannis I
Cell stem cell 20110901 3
One of the main regulators of gene expression during embryogenesis and stem cell differentiation is DNA methylation. The recent identification of hydroxymethylcytosine (5hmC) as a novel epigenetic mark sparked an intense effort to characterize its specialized enzymatic machinery and to understand the biological significance of 5hmC. The recent discovery of recurrent deletions and somatic mutations in the TET gene family, which includes proteins that can hydroxylate methylcytosine (5mC), in a lar ...[more]