Project description:Mapping genome-wide 5-hydroxymethylcytosine (5hmC) and 5-formylcytosine (5fC) at single-base resolution is important to understand their biological functions. We present a cost-efficient mapping method that combines 5hmC-specific restriction enzyme PvuRts1I with a 5hmC enrichment method. The sensitive method enables detection of low abundant 5hmC sites, providing a more complete 5hmC landscape than available bisulfite-based methods. This method generated the first genome-wide 5fC map at single-base resolution. Parallel analyses revealed that 5hmC and 5fC existed with lower abundance and more dynamically in non-CpG context than in CpG context. In the genic region, distribution of 5hmCpG and 5fCpG differed from 5hmCH and 5fCH (H=A, T, C). 5hmC and 5fC were distributed distinctly at regulatory protein-DNA binding sites, depleted in permissive transcription factor binding sites, and enriched at active and poised enhancers. This sensitive bisulfite-conversion free method can be applied to biological samples with limited starting material or low abundance of cytosine modifications. Sensitive mapping of genome-wide 5-hydroxymethylcytosine and 5-formylcytosine in mouse embryonic stem cell at single-base resolution by combining 5-hydroxymethylcytosine specific restriction enzyme PvuRts1I and 5-hydroxymethylcytosine enrichment method (selective chemical labeling or SEAL)
Project description:5-Hydroxymethylcytosine (5hmC) is an important epigenetic mark that can regulate gene expression. While some methods were developed to detect 5hmC, direct genome-wide mapping of 5hmC at base resolution are still highly desirable. Herein, we proposed a single-step deamination sequencing (SSD-seq) method for the genome-wide mapping of 5hmC at single-base resolution. This method capitalizes on a screened engineered human apolipoprotein B mRNA-editing catalytic polypeptide-like 3A (A3A) protein to produce differential deamination activity toward cytosine (C), 5-methylcytosine (5mC), and 5hmC. In SSD-seq, an engineered A3A protein (eA3A-v10) can adequately deaminate C and 5mC, but not 5hmC. The original C and 5mC in DNA are deaminated by eA3A-v10 to form uracil (U) and thymine (T), both of which are read as T during sequencing. However, 5hmC is resistant to the deamination by eA3A-v10 and is still read as C during sequencing. Therefore, the remaining C in the sequence reads manifests the original 5hmC. Applying SSD-seq to generate a base-resolution map of 5hmC in human lung tissue, we found that 5hmC was almost entirely confined to CpG dinucleotides. The base-resolution map of 5hmC from human lung tissue generated by SSD-seq correlated strongly with that generated by prior ACE-seq. Taken together, the SSD-seq method is single-step, bisulfite-free and does not require DNA glycosylation or chemical treatment, which offers a valuable tool for the direct and quantitative detection of 5hmC in genomes at single-base resolution.
Project description:Active DNA demethylation in mammals involves TET-mediated oxidation of 5-methylcytosine (5mC) to 5-hydroxymethylcytosine (5hmC), 5-formylcytosine (5fC) and 5-carboxycytosine (5caC). However, genome-wide detection of 5fC at single-base resolution remains challenging. Here we present a bisulfite-free method for the whole-genome analysis of 5fC, based on a selective chemical labeling of 5fC and subsequent C-to-T transition during PCR. Base-resolution 5fC maps reveal limited overlap with 5hmC, with 5fC-marked regions more active than 5hmC-marked ones. Utilization of cyclization-enabled C-to-T transition of 5fC (hence “fC-CET”) to obtain genome-wide map of 5fC at single-base resolution WT and TdgKO mES cell lines. Two non-enriched input DNAs (Input: preAI), two AI labeled samples (Input: AI), two pull-down output samples.
Project description:High-resolution detection of genome-wide 5-hydroxymethylcytosine (5hmC) sites of small-scale samples represents a continuous challenge. Here, we present CATCH-seq, a bisulfite-free, base-resolution method for the genome-wide detection of 5hmC. CATCH-seq is based on selective 5hmC oxidation, labeling and subsequent C-to-T transition during PCR. Applications of CATCH-seq to nano-scale DNA samples reveal previously underappreciated non-CG 5hmCs in the hESC genome and base-resolution hydroxymethylome in human cell-free DNA.
Project description:The study of 5-hydroxylmethylcytosines (5hmC), the sixth base of the mammalian genome, as an epigenetic mark has been hampered by a lack of method to map it at single-base resolution. Previous affinity purification-based methods could not precisely locate 5hmC nor accurately determine its relative abundance at each modified site. We here present a genome-wide approach for mapping 5hmC at base resolution. Application of this new method to the embryonic stem cells not only confirms widespread distribution of 5hmC in mammalian genome, but also reveals a strong sequence bias and strand asymmetry at sites of 5hmC. Additionally, the relative abundance of 5hmC varies significantly depending on the types of functional sequences, suggesting different mechanisms for 5hmC deposition and maintenance. Furthermore, we observe high levels of 5hmC and reciprocally low levels of 5mC at transcription factor binding sites, revealing a dynamic DNA methylation process at cis-regulatory elements. Base resolution sequencing of 5 hydroxymethylcytosine in human and mouse embryonic stem cells
Project description:Whole-genome single-base resolution methylcytosine and hydroxymethylcytosine maps reveal profound changes that occur during frontal cortex development in humans and mice.