Cytosine

"Cytosine" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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A pyrimidine base that is a fundamental unit of nucleic acids.

Descriptor ID	D003596
MeSH Number(s)	D03.383.742.698.421
Concept/Terms	Cytosine Cytosine

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Chemicals and Drugs [D]
Heterocyclic Compounds [D03]
Heterocyclic Compounds, 1-Ring [D03.383]
Pyrimidines [D03.383.742]
Pyrimidinones [D03.383.742.698]
Cytosine [D03.383.742.698.421]

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Bar chart showing 33 publications over 20 distinct years, with a maximum of 4 publications in 2004

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Year	Major Topic	Minor Topic	Total
1994	0	1	1
1996	1	0	1
1997	1	0	1
1999	1	0	1
2000	1	0	1
2003	3	0	3
2004	3	1	4
2005	0	1	1
2007	1	0	1
2008	1	0	1
2009	3	0	3
2010	1	2	3
2011	1	1	2
2012	1	1	2
2013	0	1	1
2014	2	0	2
2015	0	1	1
2016	2	0	2
2021	1	0	1
2022	0	1	1

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Liao X, Bai X, Wang S, Liggins C, Pan L, Wang M, Tchounwou P, Mao J, Liu YM. A novel one-pot fluorescence tagging and depyrimidination strategy for quantification of global DNA methylation. Anal Chim Acta. 2023 Jan 25; 1239:340636.

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Blythe MJ, Kocer A, Rubio-Roldan A, Giles T, Abakir A, Ialy-Radio C, Wheldon LM, Bereshchenko O, Bruscoli S, Kondrashov A, Drevet JR, Emes RD, Johnson AD, McCarrey JR, Gackowski D, Olinski R, Cocquet J, Garcia-Perez JL, Ruzov A. LINE-1 transcription in round spermatids is associated with accretion of 5-carboxylcytosine in their open reading frames. Commun Biol. 2021 06 07; 4(1):691.

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Pang AP, Sugai C, Maunakea AK. High-throughput sequencing offers new insights into 5-hydroxymethylcytosine. Biomol Concepts. 2016 Jun 01; 7(3):169-78.

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Gu J, Wang J, Leszczynski J. Electron interaction with a DNA duplex: dCpdC:dGpdG. Phys Chem Chem Phys. 2016 05 21; 18(19):13657-65.

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Dominguez PM, Teater M, Chambwe N, Kormaksson M, Redmond D, Ishii J, Vuong B, Chaudhuri J, Melnick A, Vasanthakumar A, Godley LA, Papavasiliou FN, Elemento O, Shaknovich R. DNA Methylation Dynamics of Germinal Center B Cells Are Mediated by AID. Cell Rep. 2015 Sep 29; 12(12):2086-98.

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Gu J, Wang J, Leszczynski J. Photoinduced electron detachment and proton transfer: the proposal for alternative path of formation of triplet states of guanine (G) and cytosine (C) pair. J Phys Chem B. 2015 Feb 12; 119(6):2454-8.

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Paytakov G, Gorb L, Stepanyugin A, Samiylenko S, Hovorun D, Leszczynski J. Homodimers of cytosine and 1-methylcytosine. A DFT study of geometry, relative stability and H-NMR shifts in gas-phase and selected solvents. J Mol Model. 2014 Mar; 20(3):2115.

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Kirby A, Gnirke A, Jaffe DB, Bare?ov? V, Pochet N, Blumenstiel B, Ye C, Aird D, Stevens C, Robinson JT, Cabili MN, Gat-Viks I, Kelliher E, Daza R, DeFelice M, Hulkov? H, Sovov? J, Vylet'al P, Antignac C, Guttman M, Handsaker RE, Perrin D, Steelman S, Sigurdsson S, Scheinman SJ, Sougnez C, Cibulskis K, Parkin M, Green T, Rossin E, Zody MC, Xavier RJ, Pollak MR, Alper SL, Lindblad-Toh K, Gabriel S, Hart PS, Regev A, Nusbaum C, Kmoch S, Bleyer AJ, Lander ES, Daly MJ. Mutations causing medullary cystic kidney disease type 1 lie in a large VNTR in MUC1 missed by massively parallel sequencing. Nat Genet. 2013 Mar; 45(3):299-303.

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Gu J, Wang J, Xie Y, Leszczynski J, Schaefer HF. Structural and electronic property responses to the arsenic/phosphorus exchange in GC-related DNA of the B-form. J Comput Chem. 2012 Mar 30; 33(8):817-21.

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Gu J, Wang J, Leszczynski J. Electron attachment to the cytosine-centered DNA single strands: does base stacking matter? J Phys Chem B. 2012 Feb 02; 116(4):1458-66.

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