Nature Communications (Feb 2018)

Cytosine modifications exhibit circadian oscillations that are involved in epigenetic diversity and aging

  • Gabriel Oh,
  • Sasha Ebrahimi,
  • Matthew Carlucci,
  • Aiping Zhang,
  • Akhil Nair,
  • Daniel E. Groot,
  • Viviane Labrie,
  • Peixin Jia,
  • Edward S. Oh,
  • Richie H. Jeremian,
  • Miki Susic,
  • Tenjin C. Shrestha,
  • Martin R. Ralph,
  • Juozas Gordevičius,
  • Karolis Koncevičius,
  • Art Petronis

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-03073-7
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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While epigenetic factors have been implicated in the circadian rhythm, the detection of circadian cytosine modifications has remained elusive. Here the authors identify a large number of epigenetically variable cytosines that show circadian oscillations in their modification status in mice.