Quantitative LC-MS Provides No Evidence for m<sup>6</sup>dA or m<sup>4</sup>dC in the Genome of Mouse Embryonic Stem Cells and Tissues
作者:Sarah Schiffers、Charlotte Ebert、René Rahimoff、Olesea Kosmatchev、Jessica Steinbacher、Alexandra-Viola Bohne、Fabio Spada、Stylianos Michalakis、Jörg Nickelsen、Markus Müller、Thomas Carell
DOI:10.1002/anie.201700424
日期:2017.9.4
recently, it was believed that the genomes of higher organisms contain, in addition to the four canonical DNA bases, only 5-methyl-dC (m5 dC) as a modified base to control epigenetic processes. In recent years, this view has changed dramatically with the discovery of 5-hydroxymethyl-dC (hmdC), 5-formyl-dC (fdC), and 5-carboxy-dC (cadC) in DNA from stem cells and brain tissue. N6 -methyldeoxyadenosine (m6
直到最近,人们相信,高等生物的基因组除了包含四个典型的DNA碱基外,还仅包含5-甲基-dC(m 5 dC)作为控制表观遗传过程的修饰碱基。近年来,随着在干细胞和脑组织的DNA中发现5-羟甲基-dC(hmdC),5-甲酰基-dC(fdC)和5-羧基-dC(cadC),这种观点发生了巨大变化。N 6-甲基脱氧腺苷(m 6 dA)是据报道存在于各种真核生物基因组中的最新碱基。该碱与N 4-甲基脱氧胞苷(m 4dC),首先被报道是细菌基因组的组成部分。在这项工作中,我们通过使用新型超灵敏UHPLC-MS方法研究了这些潜在表观遗传相关的DNA碱基的水平和分布。我们进一步报告了m 5 dC,hmdC,fdC和cadC的定量数据,但我们无法检测到从小鼠胚胎干细胞或脑和肝组织分离的DNA中的m 4 dC或m 6 dA。表观遗传相关性。