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EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF CANCER PREVENTION
Volume 29, Issue 6, Pages 556-564Publisher
LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS
DOI: 10.1097/CEJ.0000000000000587
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cancer; N6-methyl adenosine; SETD2
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Cancer is an unpleasant, painful disease. It is one of the most devastating diseases worldwide diminishing many lives. Many genetic and epigenetic changes occur before cancer develops. Mutation inSETD2gene is one such example. RNA splicing, DNA damage repair, DNA methylation and histone methylation are some of the biological processes mediated bySETD2.SETD2(histone H3 lysine 36 methyltransferase) is a frequently mutated gene in different types of cancer. Loss of SETD2 is associated with worse prognosis and aggressive phenotypes. Histone modification is one of the epigenetic regulation having a significant effect on gene regulation. N6-methyladenosine (m6A) mRNA modification is a well-known posttranscriptional modification playing a pivotal role in many normal and pathological processes affecting RNA metabolism. SETD2 catalyses H3K36 trimethylation and in turn H3K36me3 guides the deposition of m6A on nascent RNA transcripts. Finally, this review summarizes the deep understanding of the role of SETD2 in RNA methylation/modification and howSETD2mutation contributes to tumour development.
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