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SUBMITTER: Hardisty RE
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4521287 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Hardisty Robyn E RE Kawasaki Fumiko F Sahakyan Aleksandr B AB Balasubramanian Shankar S
Journal of the American Chemical Society 20150512 29
We present a chemical method to selectively tag and enrich thymine modifications, 5-formyluracil (5-fU) and 5-hydroxymethyluracil (5-hmU), found naturally in DNA. Inherent reactivity differences have enabled us to tag 5-fU chemoselectively over its C modification counterpart, 5-formylcytosine (5-fC). We rationalized the enhanced reactivity of 5-fU compared to 5-fC via ab initio quantum mechanical calculations. We exploited this chemical tagging reaction to provide proof of concept for the enrich ...[more]