Enigmatic 5-hydroxymethyluracil: Oxidatively modified base, epigenetic mark or both?

Mutation Research - Reviews in Mutation Research

Volumn 767, Issue , 2016, Pages 59-66

  Olinski, Ryszard ^a   Starczak, Marta ^a   Gackowski, Daniel ^a  

^a NICOLAUS COPERNICUS UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

5 Hydroxymethylcytosine; 5 Hydroxymethyluracil; Base mispair; Deamination; Epigenetics; Oxidative DNA damage

Indexed keywords

5 HYDROXYMETHYLCYTOSINE; 5 HYDROXYMETHYLURACIL; ADENINE; CELL DNA; DNA GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASE; GUANINE; PROTEIN; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; RIBOSOME RNA; SMUG1 PROTEIN; THYMIDINE DNA GLYCOSYLASE; THYMINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; 5 METHYLCYTOSINE; 5-HYDROXYMETHYLURACIL; DNA; PENTOXYL;

BACTERIOPHAGE; BASE MISPAIRING; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LEVEL; CELLULAR ORGANISM; COLON CANCER; COLORECTAL CANCER; DEAMINATION; DNA REPAIR; EMBRYO CELL; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EPIGENETICS; GENETIC CODE; HUMAN; HYDROXYLATION; LYMPHOCYTE; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN GLYCOSYLATION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN URINE LEVEL; REVIEW; ANALOGS AND DERIVATIVES; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOUSE; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PHYSIOLOGY; RAT;

5-METHYLCYTOSINE; ANIMALS; BACTERIOPHAGES; DNA; DNA REPAIR; HUMANS; HYDROXYLATION; MICE; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PENTOXYL; RATS; REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES; THYMINE;

EID: 84961181303     PISSN: 13835742     EISSN: 13882139     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mrrev.2016.02.001     Document Type: Review

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