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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| MeSH Number(s) |
D03.383.742.698.421.500
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2022 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2017 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2016 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2014 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 1998 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "5-Methylcytosine" by people in Profiles over the past ten years.
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Clement K, McGill MR, Miousse IR, Young SG, Melnyk S, Koturbash I. Methylsulfonylmethane Serves as a Donor of Methyl Groups for Methylation of DNA in Human Liver HepaRG Cells. J Diet Suppl. 2023; 20(6):950-962.
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Choudhury SR, Ordaz J, Lo CL, Damayanti NP, Zhou F, Irudayaraj J. From the Cover: Zinc oxide Nanoparticles-Induced Reactive Oxygen Species Promotes Multimodal Cyto- and Epigenetic Toxicity. Toxicol Sci. 2017 03 01; 156(1):261-274.