RNA N6-methyladenosine methylation in post-transcriptional gene expression regulation

Genes and Development

Volumn 29, Issue 13, 2015, Pages 1343-1355

  Yue, Yanan ^a,b   Liu, Jianzhao ^a,b   He, Chuan ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

M6A methyltransferase; METTL3 METTL14; mRNA methylation; N6 methyladenosine; Posttranscriptional regulation; RNA demethylase

Indexed keywords

6 N METHYLADENOSINE; MESSENGER RNA; METHYLTRANSFERASE; ADENOSINE; N(6)-METHYLADENOSINE;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; CELL DEATH; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CHEMICAL MODIFICATION; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CODON; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; EPIGENETICS; EUKARYOTE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; HUMAN; MAMMAL; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVIEW; RNA METHYLATION; RNA PROCESSING; ANALOGS AND DERIVATIVES; ANIMAL; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENETICS; METABOLISM; METHYLATION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NUCLEAR REPROGRAMMING;

EUKARYOTA;

ADENOSINE; ANIMALS; CELLULAR REPROGRAMMING; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; EUKARYOTA; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; METHYLATION; METHYLTRANSFERASES; RNA PROCESSING, POST-TRANSCRIPTIONAL; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 84937002114     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: 15495477     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.262766.115     Document Type: Review

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