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EpiMark® 5-hmC and 5-mC Analysis Kit

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E3317S 20 reactions
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E3317S 20 reactions
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The EpiMark® 5-hmC and 5-mC Analysis Kit can be used to analyze and quantitate 5-methylcytosine and 5-hydroxymethylcytosine within a specific locus. Complete conversion of 5-hmC to glucosylated 5-hmC in DNA by T4 β-glucosyltransferase (T4-BGT).

  • Discrimination between 5-mC and 5-hmC in CCGG sequences using enzymatic digestion and PCR amplification
  • Relative quantitation of 5-mC and 5-hmC
  • Easy-to-use protocol
  • This kit contains enough material for 20 reactions
5-methylcytosine (5-mC) is the predominant epigenetic mark in mammalian genomic DNA. 5-hydroxymethylcytosine (5-hmC) is a newly discovered epigenetic modification that is presumably generated by oxidation of 5-mC by the TET family of cytosine oxygenases.1,2

Techniques exist that can identify 5-mC in genomic DNA, but the most commonly used method, bisulfite sequencing, is laborious and cannot distinguish between 5-mC from 5-hmC.3 

The kit distinguishes 5-mC from 5-hmC by the addition of glucose to the hydroxyl group of 5-hmC via an enzymatic reaction utilizing T4 β-glucosyltransferase (T4-BGT). When 5-hmC occurs in the context of CCGG, this modification converts a cleavable MspI site to a noncleavable one.

An overview of the detection procedure is summarized in Figure 1.

Control DNA Sequence 
5´-CAGTGAAGTTGGCAGACTGAGCCAGGTCCCACAGATGCAGTGACCGGAGT
CATTGCCAAACTCTGCAGGAGAGCAAGGGCTGTCTATAGGTGGCAAGTCA-3´

Control DNA substrates are synthetic 100 bp double stranded fragments containing a single MspI/HpaII site (CCGG). The three fragments are identical except for modification of the internal C in this site.

FW Primer Sequence 
5´- CA GTG AAG TTG GCA GAC TGA GC -3´

REV Primer Sequence 
5´- CTG ACT TGC CAC CTA TAG ACA GC -3´

Properties & Usage

Materials Required but not Supplied

Heat block or water bath (suitable for temperatures of 37°C, 40°C and 95°C) PCR materials:
  • Locus-specific primers, flanking a CCGG site of interest
  • DNA polymerase for PCR
  • Nucleotides for PCR
  • PCR Thermal Cycler (for endpoint experiments, option IIIa)
  • Real-time PCR cycler (for quantitative experiments, option IIIb)
0.2 ml strip tubes and caps for PCR
1.5 ml reaction tubes
Molecular biology grade water

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References
  • Tahiliani, M., Koh, K.P., Shen, Y., Pastor, W.A., Bandukwala, H., Brudno, Y., Agarwal, (2009). Science 324. 930-935, PubMedID: 19372391
  • Huang, Y, Pastor, W.A., Shen, Y., Tahiliani, M., Liu, D.R., Rao, A. (2010). PloS One. PubMedID: 20126651
  • Kriaucionis, S. and Heintz, N. (2009). Science 324. 929-930, Epub 2009 Apr 16.
Citations
Additional Citations
  • Kienhöfer S., Musheev M., Stapf U., Helm M., Schomacher L., Niehrs C., Schäfer A. (2015) GADD45a physically and functionally interacts with TET1Publication DifferentiationPubMedID: 26546041, DOI: 10.1016/j.diff.2015.10.003
  • Zhao C, Wang H, Zhao B, Li C, Yin R, Song M, Liu B, Liu Z, Jiang G (2014) Boronic acid-mediated polymerase chain reaction for gene- and fragment-specific detection of 5-hydroxymethylcytosine Nucleic Acids Res 42(9), e81.PubMedID: 24682822, DOI: 10.1093/nar/gku216
  • Chandra S, Baribault C, Lacey M, Ehrlich M (2014) Myogenic differential methylation: diverse associations with chromatin structure Biology (Basel) 3(2), 426-51.PubMedID: 24949935, DOI: 10.3390/biology3020426
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