5-hydroxymethylcytosine is not present in appreciable quantities in Arabidopsis DNA

G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 1-8

  Erdmann, Robert M ^a,b   Souza, Amanda L ^c,d   Clish, Clary B ^c   Gehring, Mary ^a,b  

^a WHITEHEAD INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c BROAD INSTITUTE OF MIT AND HARVARD   (United States)

^d Thermo Fisher Scientific   (United States)

Author keywords

5 hydroxymethylcytosine; 5 methylcytosine; Arabidopsis; DNA demethylation; Epigenetics

Indexed keywords

5 HYDROXYMETHYLCYTOSINE; ANTIBODY; GENOMIC DNA; PLANT DNA; 5-HYDROXYMETHYLCYTOSINE; CYTOSINE;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS REACTION; DNA ISOLATION; ENZYMATIC RADIOLABELING; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION; PLANT GENETICS; PLANT TISSUE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; THIN LAYER CHROMATOGRAPHY; ANALOGS AND DERIVATIVES; ARABIDOPSIS; CHEMISTRY; GENETICS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; METAZOA;

ARABIDOPSIS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, THIN LAYER; CYTOSINE; DNA, PLANT; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; MASS SPECTROMETRY; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 84921452018     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21601836     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/g3.114.014670     Document Type: Article

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