m6A in mRNA: An Ancient Mechanism for Fine-Tuning Gene Expression

Trends in Genetics

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2017, Pages 380-390

  Roignant, Jean Yves ^a   Soller, Matthias ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY IMB   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

alternative splicing polyadenylation; mRNA export; mRNA stability; mRNA translation; sex lethal; Xist

Indexed keywords

6 N METHYLADENOSINE; LONG UNTRANSLATED RNA; MESSENGER RNA; METHYLTRANSFERASE; MICRORNA; RNA; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; ADENOSINE; N(6)-METHYLADENOSINE;

CELL DIFFERENTIATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMAN; MEIOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RNA PROCESSING; RNA SPLICING; SEX DETERMINATION; ANALOGS AND DERIVATIVES; DNA METHYLATION; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETICS; METABOLISM;

ADENOSINE; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; RNA PROCESSING, POST-TRANSCRIPTIONAL; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS;

EID: 85019027936     PISSN: 01689525     EISSN: 13624555     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tig.2017.04.003     Document Type: Review

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