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ArticleMethods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.)2021

Harnessing Alternative Substrates to Probe TET Family Enzymes.

Uday Ghanty, Juan C Serrano, Rahul M Kohli

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Article in Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.), 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Uday GhantyDepartment of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
Juan C SerranoGraduate Group in Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
Rahul M KohliDepartment of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA. rkohli@pennmedicine.upenn.edu.
University of Pennsylvania · US

Funding

The mechanism and modulation of 5-methylcytosine oxidation by TET family enzymesR01GM118501 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI KOHLI, RAHUL MANU · 2017 to 2020
$1.2M
NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM118501
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

TET family enzymes normally oxidize 5-methylcytosine (5mC) in DNA, and play critical roles in shaping the epigenome. Despite their importance, assessing TET activity can be difficult, particularly given the challenge of studying modifications to single nucleobases within complex DNA substrates. We recently demonstrated that in addition to acting on 5mC, TET enzymes can act promiscuously on unnatural nucleobases. Here, we describe how these alternative unnatural substrates can be employed in facile assays to detect and quantify TET activity. DNA containing unnatural 5-vinylcytosine (vC) can be used as a direct endpoint reporter of TET activity, a method that can potentially be adapted to high-throughput platforms. Complementarily, DNA containing unnatural 5-ethynylcytosine (eyC) can trap and inactivate TET enzymes upon reaction, a strategy that can be used to extract active TET enzymes from a complex cellular milieu. We present a detailed PCR-based protocol to synthesize DNA probes with either natural or unnatural modifications, and methods for using these probes to track TET activity either in vitro or in cell extracts.

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5-MethylcytosineCytosineDNA-Binding ProteinsDNA MethylationHumansMixed Function OxygenasesProto-Oncogene ProteinsSubstrate Specificity5-ethynylcytosine5-MethylcytosineCytosineDNA-Binding ProteinsMixed Function OxygenasesProto-Oncogene ProteinsTET1 protein, human5-hydroxymethylcytosineActivity-based probesChemical epigeneticsDNA methylationTET enzymes

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PMID34009620
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