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MOLECULAR CELL
Volume 65, Issue 3, Pages 554-+Publisher
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2016.12.012
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- Research Council of Lithuania [MIP-45/2013, MIP-043/2014]
- NIH [HG007200]
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Modification of CG dinucleotides in DNA is part of epigenetic regulation of gene function in vertebrates and is associated with complex human disease. Bisulfite sequencing permits high-resolution analysis of cytosine modification in mammalian genomes; however, its utility is often limited due to substantial cost. Here, we describe an alternative epigenome profiling approach, named TOP-seq, which is based on covalent tagging of individual unmodified CG sites followed by non-homologous priming of the DNA polymerase action at these sites to directly produce adjoining regions for their sequencing and precise genomic mapping. Pilot TOP-seq analyses of bacterial and human genomes showed a better agreement of TOP-seq with published bisulfite sequencing maps as compared to widely used MBD-seq and MRE-seq and permitted identification of long-range and gene-level differential methylation among human tissues and neuroblastoma cell types. Altogether, we propose an affordable single CG-resolution technique well suited for large-scale epigenome studies.
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