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SUBMITTER: Delatte B
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4198024 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
The EMBO journal 20140513 11
Methylation of the fifth carbon of cytosine was the first epigenetic modification to be discovered in DNA. Recently, three new DNA modifications have come to light: hydroxymethylcytosine, formylcytosine, and carboxylcytosine, all generated by oxidation of methylcytosine by Ten Eleven Translocation (TET) enzymes. These modifications can initiate full DNA demethylation, but they are also likely to participate, like methylcytosine, in epigenetic signalling per se. A scenario is emerging in which co ...[more]