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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2021

Phage-encoded ten-eleven translocation dioxygenase (TET) is active in C5-cytosine hypermodification in DNA.

Evan J Burke, Samuel S Rodda, Sean R Lund, Zhiyi Sun, Malcolm R Zeroka, Katherine H O'Toole, Mackenzie J Parker, Dharit S Doshi, Chudi Guan, Yan-Jiun Lee and 6 more

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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16 citing papers in PubMed, 21 citations in OpenAlex.

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  15. Pathways of thymidine hypermodification.Nucleic acids research · 2022
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  16. A postreplicative C5-cytosine hypermodification triggered by bacteriophage methyltransferase and hydroxylase.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2021
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

16 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Evan J BurkeResearch Department, Molecular Enzymology Division, New England Biolabs, Ipswich, MA 01938.ORCID 0000-0003-3335-6444
Samuel S RoddaResearch Department, Molecular Enzymology Division, New England Biolabs, Ipswich, MA 01938.
Sean R LundResearch Department, Molecular Enzymology Division, New England Biolabs, Ipswich, MA 01938.ORCID 0000-0003-1656-7979
Zhiyi SunResearch Department, Molecular Enzymology Division, New England Biolabs, Ipswich, MA 01938.
Malcolm R ZerokaResearch Department, Molecular Enzymology Division, New England Biolabs, Ipswich, MA 01938.
Katherine H O'TooleResearch Department, Molecular Enzymology Division, New England Biolabs, Ipswich, MA 01938.
Mackenzie J ParkerResearch Department, Molecular Enzymology Division, New England Biolabs, Ipswich, MA 01938.
Dharit S DoshiResearch Department, Molecular Enzymology Division, New England Biolabs, Ipswich, MA 01938.
Chudi GuanResearch Department, Molecular Enzymology Division, New England Biolabs, Ipswich, MA 01938.
Yan-Jiun LeeResearch Department, Molecular Enzymology Division, New England Biolabs, Ipswich, MA 01938.
Nan DaiResearch Department, Molecular Enzymology Division, New England Biolabs, Ipswich, MA 01938.
David M HoughResearch Department, Molecular Enzymology Division, New England Biolabs, Ipswich, MA 01938.
Daria A ShniderResearch Department, Molecular Enzymology Division, New England Biolabs, Ipswich, MA 01938.
Ivan R CorrêaResearch Department, Molecular Enzymology Division, New England Biolabs, Ipswich, MA 01938.ORCID 0000-0002-3169-6878
Peter R WeigeleResearch Department, Molecular Enzymology Division, New England Biolabs, Ipswich, MA 01938 weigele@neb.com saleh@neb.com.ORCID 0000-0003-3696-4541
Lana SalehResearch Department, Molecular Enzymology Division, New England Biolabs, Ipswich, MA 01938 weigele@neb.com saleh@neb.com.ORCID 0000-0003-2629-9795
New England Biolabs (United States) · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

TET/JBP (ten-eleven translocation/base J binding protein) enzymes are iron(II)- and 2-oxo-glutarate-dependent dioxygenases that are found in all kingdoms of life and oxidize 5-methylpyrimidines on the polynucleotide level. Despite their prevalence, few examples have been biochemically characterized. Among those studied are the metazoan TET enzymes that oxidize 5-methylcytosine in DNA to hydroxy, formyl, and carboxy forms and the euglenozoa JBP dioxygenases that oxidize thymine in the first step of base J biosynthesis. Both enzymes have roles in epigenetic regulation. It has been hypothesized that all TET/JBPs have their ancestral origins in bacteriophages, but only eukaryotic orthologs have been described. Here we demonstrate the 5mC-dioxygenase activity of several phage TETs encoded within viral metagenomes. The clustering of these TETs in a phylogenetic tree correlates with the sequence specificity of their genomically cooccurring cytosine C5-methyltransferases, which install the methyl groups upon which TETs operate. The phage TETs favor Gp5mC dinucleotides over the 5mCpG sites targeted by the eukaryotic TETs and are found within gene clusters specifying complex cytosine modifications that may be important for DNA packaging and evasion of host restriction.

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5-MethylcytosineAmino Acid SequenceBacteriophagesDioxygenasesDNADNA MethylationHydroxylationMetagenomicsNucleotide MotifsOxidation-ReductionPhylogeny5-MethylcytosineDioxygenasesDNAbacteriophageDNA modificationglycosyltransferasemethyltransferaseTET

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PMID34155108
PMCPMC8256090
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