RNA m6A methylation across the transcriptome

E Sendinc, Y Shi - Molecular cell, 2023 - cell.com
Since the early days of foundational studies of nucleic acids, many chemical moieties have
been discovered to decorate RNA and DNA in diverse organisms. In mammalian cells, one …

Regulation and functions of non-m6A mRNA modifications

H Sun, K Li, C Liu, C Yi - Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology, 2023 - nature.com
Nucleobase modifications are prevalent in eukaryotic mRNA and their discovery has
resulted in the emergence of epitranscriptomics as a research field. The most abundant …

Exclusion of m6A from splice-site proximal regions by the exon junction complex dictates m6A topologies and mRNA stability

A Uzonyi, D Dierks, R Nir, OS Kwon, U Toth, I Barbosa… - Molecular cell, 2023 - cell.com
Summary N6-methyladenosine (m6A), a widespread destabilizing mark on mRNA, is non-
uniformly distributed across the transcriptome, yet the basis for its selective deposition is …

Hidden codes in mRNA: Control of gene expression by m6A

S Murakami, SR Jaffrey - Molecular cell, 2022 - cell.com
Information in mRNA has largely been thought to be confined to its nucleotide sequence.
However, the advent of mapping techniques to detect modified nucleotides has revealed …

Quantitative sequencing using BID-seq uncovers abundant pseudouridines in mammalian mRNA at base resolution

Q Dai, LS Zhang, HL Sun, K Pajdzik, L Yang… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Functional characterization of pseudouridine (Ψ) in mammalian mRNA has been hampered
by the lack of a quantitative method that maps Ψ in the whole transcriptome. We report …

Exon architecture controls mRNA m6A suppression and gene expression

PC He, J Wei, X Dou, BT Harada, Z Zhang, R Ge, C Liu… - Science, 2023 - science.org
N 6-methyladenosine (m6A) is the most abundant messenger RNA (mRNA) modification
and plays crucial roles in diverse physiological processes. Using a massively parallel assay …

Inhibition of METTL3 attenuates renal injury and inflammation by alleviating TAB3 m6A modifications via IGF2BP2-dependent mechanisms

J Wang, F Wang, J Ke, Z Li, C Xu, Q Yang… - Science Translational …, 2022 - science.org
The role of N 6-methyladenosine (m6A) modifications in renal diseases is largely unknown.
Here, we characterized the role of N 6-adenosine-methyltransferase-like 3 (METTL3), whose …

The proteins of mRNA modification: writers, readers, and erasers

MN Flamand, M Tegowski… - Annual review of …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Over the past decade, mRNA modifications have emerged as important regulators of gene
expression control in cells. Fueled in large part by the development of tools for detecting …

m6A RNA methylation: from mechanisms to therapeutic potential

PC He, C He - The EMBO journal, 2021 - embopress.org
RNA carries a diverse array of chemical modifications that play important roles in the
regulation of gene expression. N 6‐methyladenosine (m6A), installed onto mRNA by the …

FTO mediates LINE1 m6A demethylation and chromatin regulation in mESCs and mouse development

J Wei, X Yu, L Yang, X Liu, B Gao, B Huang, X Dou… - Science, 2022 - science.org
N 6-methyladenosine (m6A) is the most abundant internal modification on mammalian
messenger RNA. It is installed by a writer complex and can be reversed by erasers such as …