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Cytosine modifications (5-methylcytosine,?5-hydroxymethylcytosine (H945870),?5-formylcytosine,?5-carboxylcytosine (C177975))?are crucial to cellular processes.?5-Formylcytosine can be used to investigate epigenetic changes in?PGC-1α promoter during exercise induced expression in mice.

ChEBI: 5-formylcytosine is a nucleobase analogue that is cytosine in which the hydrogen at position 5 is replaced by a formyl group. It has a role as a metabolite. It is an aminopyrimidine, a pyrimidone, a nucleobase analogue and a heteroarenecarbaldehyde. It is functionally related to a cytosine.