Oxidative bisulfite sequencing of 5-methylcytosine and 5- hydroxymethylcytosine

Nature Protocols

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 1841-1851

  Booth, Michael J ^a   Ost, Tobias W B ^b   Beraldi, Dario ^a,c   Bell, Neil M ^a   Branco, Miguel R ^a,d   Reik, Wolf ^a,d,e   Balasubramanian, Shankar ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b CAMBRIDGE EPIGENETIX   (United Kingdom)

^c IMPERIAL CANCER RESEARCH FUND   (United Kingdom)

^d BABRAHAM INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^e WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

5 HYDROXYMETHYLCYTOSINE; 5 METHYLCYTOSINE; BISULFITE; CARRIER PROTEINS AND BINDING PROTEINS; CYTOSINE; GENOMIC DNA; GLUCOSYLTRANSFERASE; OXIDIZING AGENT; PROTEIN TET1; SINGLE STRANDED DNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; URACIL;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; DNA MODIFICATION; DNA PURIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE LOCUS; GENOME ANALYSIS; OXIDATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS DEVELOPMENT; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; REACTION ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

5-METHYLCYTOSINE; CYTOSINE; DNA METHYLATION; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84885012678     PISSN: 17542189     EISSN: 17502799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nprot.2013.115     Document Type: Article

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