N 6 -Methyladenosine: A conformational marker that regulates the substrate specificity of human demethylases FTO and ALKBH5

Scientific Reports

Volumn 6, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Zou, Shui ^a   Toh, Joel D W ^a,b   Wong, Kendra H Q ^a   Gao, Yong Gui ^b,c   Hong, Wanjin ^b   Woon, Esther C Y ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR AND CELL BIOLOGY   (Singapore)

^c NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE; ALKBH5 PROTEIN, HUMAN; ALKYLATED DNA REPAIR PROTEIN ALKB HOMOLOG 5; ALPHA KETOGLUTARATE DEPENDENT DIOXYGENASE FTO; FTO PROTEIN, HUMAN; N(6)-METHYLADENOSINE; RNA;

ANALOGS AND DERIVATIVES; BIOCATALYSIS; CHEMISTRY; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; DEMETHYLATION; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; HUMAN; METABOLISM; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN MOTIF; RNA STABILITY; THERMODYNAMICS;

ADENOSINE; ALKB HOMOLOG 5, RNA DEMETHYLASE; ALPHA-KETOGLUTARATE-DEPENDENT DIOXYGENASE FTO; AMINO ACID MOTIFS; BASE SEQUENCE; BIOCATALYSIS; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; DEMETHYLATION; HUMANS; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; RNA; RNA STABILITY; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 84969822475     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep25677     Document Type: Article

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