5-Methylcytosine

"5-Methylcytosine" 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 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.

Descriptor ID	D044503
MeSH Number(s)	D03.383.742.698.421.500
Concept/Terms	5-Methylcytosine 5-Methylcytosine 5 Methylcytosine 5-Methylcytosine Monohydrochloride 5-Methylcytosine Monohydrochloride 5 Methylcytosine Monohydrochloride Monohydrochloride, 5-Methylcytosine

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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]
5-Methylcytosine [D03.383.742.698.421.500]

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Year	Major Topic	Minor Topic	Total
2016	0	1	1
2017	1	0	1
2021	0	1	1
2022	1	0	1
2024	0	1	1

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Ganguly A, Ghosh S, Shin BC, Touma M, Wadehra M, Devaskar SU. Gestational exposure to air pollutants perturbs metabolic and placenta-fetal phenotype. Reprod Toxicol. 2024 09; 128:108657.

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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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Foox J, Nordlund J, Lalancette C, Gong T, Lacey M, Lent S, Langhorst BW, Ponnaluri VKC, Williams L, Padmanabhan KR, Cavalcante R, Lundmark A, Butler D, Mozsary C, Gurvitch J, Greally JM, Suzuki M, Menor M, Nasu M, Alonso A, Sheridan C, Scherer A, Bruinsma S, Golda G, Muszynska A, Labaj PP, Campbell MA, Wos F, Raine A, Liljedahl U, Axelsson T, Wang C, Chen Z, Yang Z, Li J, Yang X, Wang H, Melnick A, Guo S, Blume A, Franke V, Ibanez de Caceres I, Rodriguez-Antolin C, Rosas R, Davis JW, Ishii J, Megherbi DB, Xiao W, Liao W, Xu J, Hong H, Ning B, Tong W, Akalin A, Wang Y, Deng Y, Mason CE. The SEQC2 epigenomics quality control (EpiQC) study. Genome Biol. 2021 12 06; 22(1):332.

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Cuevas-Nunez MC, Gomes CBF, Woo SB, Ramsey MR, Chen XL, Xu S, Xu T, Zhan Q, Murphy GF, Lian CG. Biological significance of 5-hydroxymethylcytosine in oral epithelial dysplasia and oral squamous cell carcinoma. Oral Surg Oral Med Oral Pathol Oral Radiol. 2018 Jan; 125(1):59-73.e2.

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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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Ariel M, Cedar H, McCarrey J. Developmental changes in methylation of spermatogenesis-specific genes include reprogramming in the epididymis. Nat Genet. 1994 May; 7(1):59-63.

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