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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Nov 3.
Published in final edited form as: Cold Spring Harb Symp Quant Biol. 2014 Mar 11;78:1–10. doi: 10.1101/sqb.2013.78.020248

Table 2.

Behavior of 5mC and its oxi-mCs in bisulfite conversion and the following PCR step

Base Bisulfite conversion BS Sequencing result
5mC 5mC C
5hmC CMS C
5gmC 5gmC C
5fC U T
5caC U T
C U T

Abbreviations: CMS: cytosine methylenesulfonate; 5gmC: β-glucosyl-5-hydroxymethylcytosine