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SUBMITTER: Yu M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4300242 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Yu Miao M Song Chun-Xiao CX He Chuan C
Methods (San Diego, Calif.) 20141115
How DNA demethylation is achieved in mammals is still under extensive investigation. One proposed mechanism is deamination of 5-hydroxymethylcytosine to form 5-hydroxymethyluracil (5hmU), followed by base excision repair to replace the mismatched 5hmU with cytosine. In this process, 5hmU:G mispair serves as a key intermediate and its localization and distribution in mammalian genome could be important information to investigate the proposed pathway. Here we describe a selective labeling method t ...[more]