Non-CG DNA methylation is a biomarker for assessing endodermal differentiation capacity in pluripotent stem cells

The methylation of non-CpG residues is a poorly understood marker of pluripotent cells, gradually lost as cells differentiate. Here the authors show non-CG methylation can be used as a marker of differentiation potential.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Lee M. Butcher, Mitsuteru Ito, Minodora Brimpari, Tiffany J. Morris, Filipa A. C. Soares, Lars Ährlund-Richter, Nessa Carey, Ludovic Vallier, Anne C. Ferguson-Smith, Stephan Beck
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2016-01-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms10458