Adenine methylation is very scarce in the drosophila genome and not erased by the Ten Eleven Translocation dioxygenase.
Manon Boulet, Guerric Gilbert, Yoan Renaud, Martina Schmidt, Emilie Auxerre-Plantié, Romane Bertrand, Xinsheng Nan, Tomasz Piotr Jurkowski, Mark Helm, Laurence Vandel, Lucas Waltzer
The paper investigates 6mA DNA modification in drosophila, finding it present at very low levels and not erased by TET, suggesting TET acts non-enzymatically.
bioRxiv · Sep 15, 2023 · PreprintMolecular Biology