长读测序揭示了人类肠道基因组中广泛的DNA甲基化,由普遍菌体编码的甲基转移酶贡献

Chuqing Sun1, Jingchao Chen1, Menglu Jin1

  • 1Key Laboratory of Molecular Biophysics of the Ministry of Education, Hubei Key Laboratory of Bioinformatics and Molecular Imaging, Center for Artificial Intelligence Biology, Department of Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, College of Life Science and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, 430074, P. R. China.

概括

大多数肠道菌体 (菌体) 使用DNA甲基化来生存,许多人编码自己的DNA甲基转移酶 (MTases),帮助逃避宿主防御和预测菌体与宿主相互作用.