How does a methylated cytosine resists bisulphite treatment whereas unmethylated cytosines are converted into uracil?
The original papers describing the reaction:
http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/bi00816a016
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/5495733
methylcytosine is actually converted to thymine, albeit at a much slower rate than that of cytidine conversion to uracil. A great paper from M. Ehrlich's group, comparing the conversion kinetics of these reactions in ssDNA:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC324387/
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