A fly view on the roles and mechanisms of the m6A mRNA modification and its players

RNA Biology

Volumn 14, Issue 9, 2017, Pages 1232-1240

  Lence, Tina ^a   Soller, Matthias ^b   Roignant, Jean Yves ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY IMB   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Drosophila; m6A; neurogenesis; RNA modifications; Sex lethal; splicing

Indexed keywords

6 N METHYLADENOSINE; CARRIER PROTEINS AND BINDING PROTEINS; CG6422 PROTEIN; CYTOPLASM PROTEIN; DEMETHYLASE; FEMALE LETHAL(2)D PROTEIN; INDUCER OF MEIOSIS 4 PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; METHYLTRANSFERASE; METTL14 PROTEIN; N 6 METHYLADENOSINE METHYLTRANSFERASE; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; OXYGENASE; SPENITO PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRLIZER PROTEIN; YT521 B PROTEIN; ADENOSINE; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; N(6)-METHYLADENOSINE;

BINDING AFFINITY; CHEMICAL MODIFICATION; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENETIC ENGINEERING AND GENE TECHNOLOGY; HUMAN; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REVIEW; RNA MODIFICATION; ANALOGS AND DERIVATIVES; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; METHYLATION; RNA SPLICING;

ADENOSINE; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASES; ANIMALS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; METHYLATION; RNA SPLICING; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 85018191748     PISSN: 15476286     EISSN: 15558584     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15476286.2017.1307484     Document Type: Review

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