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ArticleCommunications biology2025

Double and single stranded detection of 5-methylcytosine and 5-hydroxymethylcytosine with nanopore sequencing.

Dominic Oliver Halliwell, Floris Honig, Stefan Bagby, Sandipan Roy, Adele Murrell

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Article in Communications biology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 21 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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21 citing papers in PubMed.

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  17. DNA methylation shapes transcription factor binding beyond canonical CpG contexts.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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  19. SCoTCH-seq reveals that 5-hydroxymethylcytosine encodes regulatory information across DNA strands.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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  20. Cell identity and 5-hydroxymethylcytosine.Epigenetics & chromatin · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Dominic Oliver HalliwellDepartment of Life Sciences, University of Bath, Bath, UK. doh28@bath.ac.uk.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2848-7888
Floris HonigDepartment of Life Sciences, University of Bath, Bath, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6006-7376
Stefan BagbyDepartment of Life Sciences, University of Bath, Bath, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2302-9511
Sandipan RoyDepartment of Mathematical Sciences, University of Bath, Bath, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2898-0659
Adele MurrellDepartment of Life Sciences, University of Bath, Bath, UK. amm95@bath.ac.uk.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2647-3511

Funding

RCUK | Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) BB/T008741/1
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

5-methylcytosine (5mC) and 5-hydroxymethylcytosine (5hmC) are modified versions of cytosine in DNA with roles in regulating gene expression. Using whole genomic DNA from mouse cerebellum, we benchmark 5mC and 5hmC detection by Oxford Nanopore Technologies sequencing against other standard techniques. In addition, we assess the ability of duplex base-calling to study strand asymmetric modification. Nanopore detection of 5mC and 5hmC is accurate relative to compared techniques and opens means of studying these modifications. Strand asymmetric modification is widespread across the genome but reduced at imprinting control regions and CTCF binding sites in mouse cerebellum. Here we demonstrate the unique ability of nanopore sequencing to improve the resolution and detail of cytosine modification mapping.

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5-MethylcytosineDNADNA MethylationNanopore SequencingAnimalsCerebellumMiceMice, Inbred C57BLSequence Analysis, DNA5-hydroxymethylcytosine5-MethylcytosineDNA

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PMID39955446
PMCPMC11830040

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