Cytosine deamination is a topic near and dear to Mike's heart if I recall.    From Wordnik.com.  [Controlled Pathways] Reference

Alu elements coupled with cytosine deamination generate p53 binding sites.    From Wordnik.com.  [2009 October - Telic Thoughts] Reference

How do cells exclude radiation, deamination or by-products of cellular respiration.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Genomic Balancing Act] Reference

I also just learned that methionine is resistant to cytosine deamination, and it sets the reading frame.    From Wordnik.com.  [Always finish what you start…] Reference

In this respect, ara-G had an advantage over the deamination product of ara-A, hypoxanthine arabinoside, which had very poor antiviral activity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nobel Lecture The Purine Path To Chemotherapy] Reference

They include all kinds of radiation effects, by-products of chemical reactions, including necessary metabolic ones, deamination and even hydrolysis.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Genomic Balancing Act] Reference

Cytosine deamination, controlled variation and the immunological functions are nicely linked and analogous systems in unicellular organisms can be found.    From Wordnik.com.  [Controlled Pathways] Reference

For example, his cytosine deamination article where one can say that protein structure may be strongly influenced by the boundaries of the coding sequence.    From Wordnik.com.  [ID Research, Look to the Example] Reference

Single bases in DNA can be chemically mutated, for example by deamination or alkylation, resulting in incorrect base-pairing, and consequently, mutations in the DNA.    From Wordnik.com.  [Another Protozoan and Front-Loading] Reference

Those three articles are the only articles in which he discusses cytosine deamination, SFAIK, and there connection to your emperical test is obscure, to say the least.    From Wordnik.com.  [ID Research, Look to the Example] Reference

Listed are several of these oxidizing reactions. alcohol dehydrogenation aldehyde dehydrogenation alkyl/acyclic hydroxylation aromatic hydroxylation deamination desulfuration.    From Wordnik.com.  [Biotransformation] Reference

The binding regions of the antibody genes don't contain sequences that resemble switch regions, yet they are ample targets for AID-mediated cytosine deamination, indicating that switch regions wouldn't even be necessary for a primitive CSR system.    From Wordnik.com.  [3 recent reports use evolution to study mechanisms of antibody diversification - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

Each constant region has a switch region immediately in front of it, and when the switch region of both the original constant region, and a second constant region undergo AID-mediated cytosine deamination, the two switch regions recombine and the constant regions are swapped.    From Wordnik.com.  [3 recent reports use evolution to study mechanisms of antibody diversification - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

Results allowed us to estimate an overall deamination-based damage rate in the Saqqaq genome of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Naturejobs - All Jobs] Reference

"Transglutaminase catalyzes the deamination and amine fixation of proteins and has been widely used in the food industry.".    From Wordnik.com.  [FoodNavigator RSS] Reference

+ NAD (P) H + H+ + O2 + 2 H2 O = catechol + CO2 + NAD (P) + + NH3 (requires Fe2+) Reaction type deamination decarboxylation oxidation 123.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference

A major concern in ancient DNA studies is post-mortem damage, cytosine to uracil deamination, that can result in erroneous base incorporation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Naturejobs - All Jobs] Reference

CO (NH2) 2, is synthesised in the liver in two stages: first, the deamination of amino acids to produce ammonia, and second, the use of this ammonia in the ornithine cycle to form urea.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]] Reference

Secondly, chemical modification of the bases in ancient sequences, primarily the deamination of cytosine residues to uracil, can cause nucleotide misincorporation in newly synthesised DNA during PCR amplification or DNA sequencing.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

I suppose if aliens went around and seeded engineered bacteria everywhere, that could get you those similarities, but then you would have to explain why apparently boneheaded phenomena like cytosine deamination weren’t fixed.    From Wordnik.com.  [The SciPhi Show, IslamOnline.net - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

(2004) Comparison of the differential context-dependence of DNA deamination by APOBEC enzymes: correlation with mutation spectra in vivo.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

C-to-A and G-to-T occur more frequently than expected mismatches caused by post-mortem cytosine deamination, namely C-to-T and G-to-A mismatches (1. 11% C-to-A The identity and distribution of DNA nucleotide mismatches in individual Illumina GA reads compared to the CPC98 consensus mtDNA genome.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference