No evidence for DNA N 6-methyladenine in mammals.

Abstract:

:N6-methyladenine (6mdA) is a widespread DNA modification in bacteria. More recently, 6mdA has also been characterized in mammalian DNA. However, measurements of 6mdA abundance and profiles are often very dissimilar between studies, even when performed on DNA from identical mammalian cell types. Using comprehensive bioinformatics analyses of published data and novel experimental approaches, we reveal that efforts to assay 6mdA in mammals have been severely compromised by bacterial contamination, RNA contamination, technological limitations, and antibody nonspecificity. These complications render 6mdA an exceptionally problematic DNA modification to study and have resulted in erroneous detection of 6mdA in several mammalian systems. Together, our results strongly imply that the evidence published to date is not sufficient to support the presence of 6mdA in mammals.

journal_name

Sci Adv

journal_title

Science advances

authors

Douvlataniotis K,Bensberg M,Lentini A,Gylemo B,Nestor CE

doi

10.1126/sciadv.aay3335

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2020-03-18 00:00:00

pages

eaay3335

issue

12

issn

2375-2548

pii

aay3335

journal_volume

6

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