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SCIENCE ADVANCES
Volume 7, Issue 18, Pages -Publisher
AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abd4742
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [91753141/82030042/32070917, 81822021/91842105, 81801550, 81901580]
- Shanghai Science and Technology Committee [20JC1417400/201409005500/20JC1410100]
- Program for Professor of Special Appointment (Eastern Scholar) at Shanghai Institutions of Higher Learning
- Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine
- National Key RAMP
- D Program of China [2018YFA0508000]
- Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences [XDB29030101]
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute
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Research has identified the important role of METTL3-mediated m(6)A modification in host immune responses, regulating macrophage activation through the TLR signaling pathway. This may serve as a potential target for cancer immunotherapy.
m(6)A RNA modification is implicated in multiple cellular responses. However, its function in the innate immune cells is poorly understood. Here, we identified major m(6)A writers as the top candidate genes regulating macro-phage activation by LPS in an RNA binding protein focused CRISPR screening. We have confirmed that Mettl3-deficient macrophages exhibited reduced TNF-alpha production upon LPS stimulation in vitro. Consistently, Mettl3(flox/flox); Lyzm-Cre mice displayed increased susceptibility to bacterial infection and showed faster tumor growth. Mechanistically, the transcripts of the Irakm gene encoding a negative regulator of TLR4 signaling were highly decorated by m(6)A modification. METTL3 deficiency led to the loss of m(6)A modification on Irakm mRNA and slowed down its degradation, resulting in a higher level of IRAKM, which ultimately suppressed TLR signaling-mediated macro-phage activation. Our findings demonstrate a previously unknown role for METTL3-mediated m(6)A modification in innate immune responses and implicate the m(6)A machinery as a potential cancer immunotherapy target.
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