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The spatiotemporal expression of genes is sophisticatedly controlled through three main layers: transcriptional, translational and post-translational. Now increasing chemical modifications are discovered on genomic DNA, RNA and proteins. These modifications are recognized as additional layer of regulatory mechanisms in controlling gene expression that defines cell status. So far, more than 150 chemical modifications are identified in nucleic acids, and more than 400 discrete types of modifications are identified in proteins. How these modifications are interpreted are fundamental questions to our understanding of living organisms. The omics sciences of systems biology, including genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, and metabolomics, have been in existence for decades. Due to the large numbers of modifications occurring in DNA, RNA and proteins with regulatory roles, we propose the modificaomics from the words of modification and omics. Modificaomics mainly refers to the comprehensive study of the modifications on DNA, RNA and proteins. In this review, we conceive modificaomics by introducing the discovered modifications in DNA, RNA and proteins as well as summarizing their biological functions. We hope the proposed modificaomics can provide a whole picture of modifications of these biopolymers and simulate the study of the functions of the modifications on DNA, RNA and proteins.
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The work was supported by the National Key R&D Program of China (2017YFC0906800) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (21522507, 21672166, 21635006, 21721005).
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Liu, T., Ma, CJ., Yuan, BF. et al. Modificaomics: deciphering the functions of biomolecule modifications. Sci. China Chem. 61, 381–392 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11426-017-9186-y
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