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1Department of Cell and Tumor Biology, City of Hope National Medical Center and Beckman Research Institute, Duarte, CA 91010.
The Biochemical Journal
|July 1, 1991
Abstract:
We find no evidence for the presence of 5-methylcytosine in the DNA of Dictyostelium discoideum. Methylation was absent from CCGG sites in repetitive DNA and in DNA from the actin multigene family. Nor was 5-methylcytosine detected in total DNA when base composition was determined by means of h.p.l.c.
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