This invention relates to the identification of modified cytosine residues, such as 5-methylcytosine (5mC), 5-hydroxymethylcytosine (5hmC) and 5-formylcytosine (5fC) to be distinguished from cytosine (C) in a sample nucleotide sequence. Methods may comprise oxidizing or reducing a first portion of polynucleotides which comprise the sample nucleotide sequence; treating the oxidized or reduced first portion and a second portion of polynucleotides with bisulfite; sequencing the polynucleotides in the first and second portions of the population following steps ii) and iii) to produce first and second nucleotide sequences, respectively and; identifying the residue in the first and second nucleotide sequences which corresponds to a cytosine residue in the sample nucleotide sequence. These methods may be useful, for example in the analysis of genomic DNA and/or of RNA.
本发明涉及鉴定修饰
胞嘧啶残基,如 5-甲基
胞嘧啶(5mC)、
5-羟甲基胞嘧啶(5hmC)和 5-甲酰基
胞嘧啶(5fC),以便与样本核苷酸序列中的
胞嘧啶(C)区分开来。方法可包括氧化或还原包含样本核苷酸序列的第一部分多核苷酸;用
亚硫酸氢盐处理氧化或还原的第一部分和第二部分多核苷酸;按照步骤 ii) 和 iii) 对第一部分和第二部分群体中的多核苷酸进行测序,分别产生第一和第二核苷酸序列;鉴定第一和第二核苷酸序列中与样本核苷酸序列中
胞嘧啶残基相对应的残基。这些方法可用于
基因组 DNA 和/或 RNA 的分析等。