Hydroxymethylcytosine (hmC or 5-hmC) is a nitrogen base occurring as a result of cytosine methylation followed by replacing a methyl group with a hydroxyl group through active oxidation. 5-hmC is considered to be one of the forms of epigenetic modification and is suggested as an intermediate step in a semiactive loss of DNA methylation mark. 5-hmC plays an important role in the epigenetic regulation of gene expression in animals, although its role in plants remains controversial. Here, we present a colorimetric method of quantification of 5-hmC using Brassica rapa DNA.
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Golubov, A., & Kovalchuk, I. (2017). Analysis of DNA hydroxymethylation using colorimetric assay. In Methods in Molecular Biology (Vol. 1456, pp. 89–97). Humana Press Inc. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-7708-3_8
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