Means, mechanisms and consequences of adenine methylation in DNA

K Boulias, EL Greer - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract N 6-methyl-2′-deoxyadenosine (6mA or m6dA) has been reported in the DNA of
prokaryotes and eukaryotes ranging from unicellular protozoa and algae to multicellular …

Deciphering bacterial epigenomes using modern sequencing technologies

J Beaulaurier, EE Schadt, G Fang - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2019 - nature.com
Prokaryotic DNA contains three types of methylation: N6-methyladenine, N4-methylcytosine
and 5-methylcytosine. The lack of tools to analyse the frequency and distribution of …

Meta-4mCpred: a sequence-based meta-predictor for accurate DNA 4mC site prediction using effective feature representation

B Manavalan, S Basith, TH Shin, L Wei… - Molecular Therapy-Nucleic …, 2019 - cell.com
DNA N4-methylcytosine (4mC) is an important genetic modification and plays crucial roles in
differentiation between self and non-self DNA and in controlling DNA replication, cell cycle …

Ultrafast bisulfite sequencing detection of 5-methylcytosine in DNA and RNA

Q Dai, C Ye, I Irkliyenko, Y Wang, HL Sun, Y Gao… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Bisulfite sequencing (BS-seq) to detect 5-methylcytosine (5mC) is limited by lengthy reaction
times, severe DNA damage, overestimation of 5mC level and incomplete C-to-U conversion …

iDNA4mC: identifying DNA N4-methylcytosine sites based on nucleotide chemical properties

W Chen, H Yang, P Feng, H Ding, H Lin - Bioinformatics, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Motivation DNA N4-methylcytosine (4mC) is an epigenetic modification. The
knowledge about the distribution of 4mC is helpful for understanding its biological functions …

Nucleic acid modifications in regulation of gene expression

K Chen, BS Zhao, C He - Cell chemical biology, 2016 - cell.com
Nucleic acids carry a wide range of different chemical modifications. In contrast to previous
views that these modifications are static and only play fine-tuning functions, recent research …

Exploring sequence-based features for the improved prediction of DNA N4-methylcytosine sites in multiple species

L Wei, S Luan, LAE Nagai, R Su, Q Zou - Bioinformatics, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Motivation As one of important epigenetic modifications, DNA N4-methylcytosine (4mC) is
recently shown to play crucial roles in restriction–modification systems. For better …

DeepTorrent: a deep learning-based approach for predicting DNA N4-methylcytosine sites

Q Liu, J Chen, Y Wang, S Li, C Jia… - Briefings in …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Abstract DNA N4-methylcytosine (4mC) is an important epigenetic modification that plays a
vital role in regulating DNA replication and expression. However, it is challenging to detect …

Sources of artifact in measurements of 6mA and 4mC abundance in eukaryotic genomic DNA

ZK O'Brown, K Boulias, J Wang, SY Wang… - BMC genomics, 2019 - Springer
Background Directed DNA methylation on N6-adenine (6mA), N4-cytosine (4mC), and C5-
cytosine (5mC) can potentially increase DNA coding capacity and regulate a variety of …

Navigating the pitfalls of mapping DNA and RNA modifications

Y Kong, EA Mead, G Fang - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2023 - nature.com
Chemical modifications to nucleic acids occur across the kingdoms of life and carry
important regulatory information. Reliable high-resolution mapping of these modifications is …