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  • Title: Organization of 5-methylcytosine in chromosomal DNA.
    Author: Solage A, Cedar H.
    Journal: Biochemistry; 1978 Jul 11; 17(14):2934-8. PubMed ID: 687571.
    Abstract:
    The 5-methylcytosine residues of L-cells have been labeled with [methyl-3H]-L-methionine and their chromatin localization studied using deoxyribonucleases. The kinetics of micrococcal nuclease digestion showed that the methylated cytosine residues are concentrated within regions resistant to nuclease digestion and preferentially missing from those regions between nucleosomes which are nuclease sensitive. Using DNA hybridization kinetic analysis, it is shown that 5-methylcytosine is abundant in highly repeated sequences but is also present in middle repetitive and unique sequence DNA.
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