Sensitive and specific single-molecule sequencing of 5-hydroxymethylcytosine (original) (raw)

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We describe strand-specific, base-resolution detection of 5-hydroxymethylcytosine (5-hmC) in genomic DNA with single-molecule sensitivity, combining a bioorthogonal, selective chemical labeling method of 5-hmC with single-molecule, real-time (SMRT) DNA sequencing. The chemical labeling not only allows affinity enrichment of 5-hmC–containing DNA fragments but also enhances the kinetic signal of 5-hmC during SMRT sequencing. We applied the approach to sequence 5-hmC in a genomic DNA sample with high confidence.

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Acknowledgements

This study was supported partly by US National Institutes of Health grants GM071440 (to C.H.) and 1RC2HG005618-01 (National Human Genome Research Institute to S.T.) and The University of Chicago. We thank K. Spittle, M. Boitano, J. Eid, J. Wegener and K. Luong for assistance in data acquisition and figure generation.

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  1. Chun-Xiao Song and Tyson A Clark: These authors contributed equally to this work.

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  1. Department of Chemistry and Institute for Biophysical Dynamics, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA
    Chun-Xiao Song, Xing-Yu Lu, Qing Dai & Chuan He
  2. Pacific Biosciences, Menlo Park, California, USA
    Tyson A Clark, Andrey Kislyuk, Stephen W Turner & Jonas Korlach

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C.H., C.-X.S., J.K. and S.W.T. designed experiments. C.-X.S. performed the labeling and pulldown of synthetic template and mESC sample. T.A.C. prepared library constructs and conducted the sequencing experiments. A.K. analyzed data. Q.D., C.-X.S. and X.-Y.L. carried out the chemical synthesis. X.-Y.L. validated mESC hits. C.H., C.-X.S. and J.K. wrote the paper.

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Correspondence toChuan He or Jonas Korlach.

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T.A.C., S.W.T. and J.K. are employees of Pacific Biosciences, which commercializes single-molecule, real-time sequencing technologies.

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Song, CX., Clark, T., Lu, XY. et al. Sensitive and specific single-molecule sequencing of 5-hydroxymethylcytosine.Nat Methods 9, 75–77 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmeth.1779

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