Active DNA demethylation of developmental cis-regulatory regions predates vertebrate origins
Ksenia Skvortsova, Stéphanie Bertrand, Danila Voronov, Paul E. Duckett, Samuel E. Ross, Marta Silvia Magri, Ignacio Maeso, Robert J. Weatheritt, José Luis Gómez-Skármeta, Maria Ina Arnone, Héctor Escrivá, Ozren Bogdanović
The paper investigates 5hmC and TET enzyme function in non-vertebrate deuterostomes, showing conserved 5mC removal from regulatory regions across species.
Science Advances · Dec 2, 2022Peer-reviewedGenomics