New insights into 5hmC DNA modification: Generation, distribution and function

Frontiers in Genetics

Volumn 8, Issue JUL, 2017, Pages

  Shi, Dong Qiao ^a   Ali, Iftikhar ^a   Tang, Jun ^a   Yang, Wei Cai ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GENETICS AND DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

5 hydroxymethylcytosine; DNA demethylation; DNA hydroxylation; Epigenetics; TET proteins

Indexed keywords

5 HYDROXYMETHYL CYTOSINE; CHROMOMETHYLASE 3; CYTOSINE DERIVATIVE; DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE 1; GENOMIC DNA; METHYLTRANSFERASE; METHYLTRANSFERASE 2; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AGING; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ATAXIA TELANGIECTASIA; AUTISM; BEET; BIPOLAR DISORDER; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CARCINOGENESIS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; DEMETHYLATION; DNA DAMAGE; DNA METHYLATION; DNA MODIFICATION; DNA REPAIR; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ENTEROBACTERIA PHAGE T2; ENTEROBACTERIA PHAGE T4; ENTEROBACTERIA PHAGE T6; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EPIGENETICS; EXCISION REPAIR; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; FRAGILE X SYNDROME; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; GENE TRANSLOCATION; HISTONE MODIFICATION; HUMAN EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; MELANOMA; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NONHUMAN; RETT SYNDROME; REVIEW; SCHIZOPHRENIA; ZYGOTE;

EID: 85026406234     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16648021     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2017.00100     Document Type: Review

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