The expanding scope and impact of epigenetic cytosine modifications

Current Opinion in Chemical Biology

Volumn 33, Issue , 2016, Pages 67-73

  Liu, Monica Yun ^a,b   DeNizio, Jamie E ^a,b   Schutsky, Emily K ^a,b   Kohli, Rahul M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

5 METHYLCYTOSINE; CYTIDINE DEAMINASE; CYTOSINE; ENZYME; TEN ELEVEN TRANSLOCATION ENZYME; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

DEMETHYLATION; DNA METHYLATION; DNA MODIFICATION; ENZYME METABOLISM; ENZYME STRUCTURE; EPIGENETICS; HUMAN; NEOPLASM; NONHUMAN; PROTEOMICS; REVIEW; ANIMAL; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; METABOLISM;

ANIMALS; CYTOSINE; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; HUMANS;

EID: 84973926853     PISSN: 13675931     EISSN: 18790402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2016.05.029     Document Type: Review

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