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Transient Accumulation of 5-Carboxylcytosine Indicates Involvement of Active Demethylation in Lineage Specification of Neural Stem Cells (2014)
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Wheldon, L. M., Abakir, A., Ferjentsik, Z., Dudnakova, T., Strohbuecker, S., Christie, D., …Ruzov, A. (2014). Transient Accumulation of 5-Carboxylcytosine Indicates Involvement of Active Demethylation in Lineage Specification of Neural Stem Cells. Cell Reports, 7(5), 1353-1361. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.celrep.2014.05.003

5-Methylcytosine (5mC) is an epigenetic modification involved in regulation of gene activity during differentiation. Tet dioxygenases oxidize 5mC to 5-hydroxymethylcytosine (5hmC), 5-formylcytosine (5fC), and 5-carboxylcytosine (5caC). Both 5fC and 5... Read More about Transient Accumulation of 5-Carboxylcytosine Indicates Involvement of Active Demethylation in Lineage Specification of Neural Stem Cells.