N6-methyladenosine modification in mRNA: Machinery, function and implications for health and diseases

FEBS Journal

Volumn 283, Issue 9, 2016, Pages 1607-1630

  Maity, Arpita ^a   Das, Biswadip ^a  

^a JADAVPUR UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

epitranscriptomics; m6A effector; m6A methylation; m6A reader; m6A writer; mRNA modification

Indexed keywords

6 N METHYLADENOSINE; ALKBH5 PROTEIN; FTO PROTEIN; HETEROGENEOUS NUCLEAR RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; LONG UNTRANSLATED RNA; MESSENGER RNA; METHYLTRANSFERASE; METTL14 PROTEIN; METTL3 PROTEIN; METTL4 PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WTAP PROTEIN; 6-METHYLADENINE MRNA METHYLTRANSFERASE; ADENOSINE; N DEMETHYLASE; N(6)-METHYLADENOSINE;

CANCER GROWTH; EPITRANSCRIPTOMICS; EXTRACTION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HISTONE MODIFICATION; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; ISOTOPE LABELING; M6A INDIVIDUAL NUCLEOTIDE RESOLUTION CROSSLINKING AND IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; METHYLATED RNA IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR EXPORT SIGNAL; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; REVIEW; RNA METHYLATION; RNA SPLICING; RNA STABILITY; RNA TRANSLATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SITE SPECIFIC CLEAVAGE AND RADIOACTIVE LABELLING FOLLOWED BY LIGATION ASSISTED EXTRACTION; THIN LAYER CHROMATOGRAPHY; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; YTH DOMAIN; ANALOGS AND DERIVATIVES; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CYTOLOGY; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; EUKARYOTIC CELL; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; METHYLATION; NEOPLASM; PATHOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ADENOSINE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; EUKARYOTIC CELLS; HUMANS; METHYLATION; METHYLTRANSFERASES; NEOPLASMS; NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES; OXIDOREDUCTASES, N-DEMETHYLATING; RNA SPLICING; RNA, LONG NONCODING; RNA, MESSENGER; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84965168190     PISSN: 1742464X     EISSN: 17424658     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/febs.13614     Document Type: Review

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