 5-Methylcytosine
"5-Methylcytosine" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A methylated nucleotide base found in eukaryotic DNA. In ANIMALS, the DNA METHYLATION of CYTOSINE to form 5-methylcytosine is found primarily in the palindromic sequence CpG. In PLANTS, the methylated sequence is CpNpGp, where N can be any base.
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D044503
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D03.383.742.698.421.500
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Below are the most recent publications written about "5-Methylcytosine" by people in Profiles.
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Pacis A, Tailleux L, Morin AM, Lambourne J, MacIsaac JL, Yotova V, Dumaine A, Danckaert A, Luca F, Grenier JC, Hansen KD, Gicquel B, Yu M, Pai A, He C, Tung J, Pastinen T, Kobor MS, Pique-Regi R, Gilad Y, Barreiro LB. Bacterial infection remodels the DNA methylation landscape of human dendritic cells. Genome Res. 2015 Dec; 25(12):1801-11.
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Bakin AV, Curran T. Role of DNA 5-methylcytosine transferase in cell transformation by fos. Science. 1999 Jan 15; 283(5400):387-90.
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