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CELL
Volume 162, Issue 6, Pages 1299-1308Publisher
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2015.08.011
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- Robert S. Bennett Postdoctoral Fellowship
- Debra and Leon Black Challenge Grant
- Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award from the NIH [T32CA009673-36A1]
- National Human Genome Research Institute [R01 HG003219]
- Department of Defense Breast Cancer Collaborative Scholars and Innovators Award
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N-6-methyladenosine (m(6)A) is the most abundant internal modification of messenger RNA. While the presence of m(6)A on transcripts can impact nuclear RNA fates, a reader of this mark that mediates processing of nuclear transcripts has not been identified. We find that the RNA-binding protein HNRNPA2B1 binds m(6)A-bearing RNAs in vivo and in vitro and its biochemical footprint matches the m(6)A consensus motif. HNRNPA2B1 directly binds a set of nuclear transcripts and elicits similar alternative splicing effects as the m(6)A writer METTL3. Moreover, HNRNPA2B1 binds to m(6)A marks in a subset of primary miRNA transcripts, interacts with the microRNA Microprocessor complex protein DGCR8, and promotes primary miRNA processing. Also, HNRNPA2B1 loss and METTL3 depletion cause similar processing defects for these pri-miRNA precursors. We propose HNRNPA2B1 to be a nuclear reader of the m(6)A mark and to mediate, in part, this mark's effects on primary microRNA processing and alternative splicing.
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