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RNA
Volume 24, Issue 3, Pages 262-267Publisher
COLD SPRING HARBOR LAB PRESS, PUBLICATIONS DEPT
DOI: 10.1261/rna.065219.117
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By using a cell fraction technique that separates chromatin-associated nascent RNA, newly completed nucleoplasmic mRNA and cytoplasmic mRNA, we have shown in a previous study that residues in exons are methylated (m(6)A) in nascent pre-mRNA and remain methylated in the same exonic residues in nucleoplasmic and cytoplasmic mRNA. Thus, there is no evidence of a substantial degree of demethylation in mRNA exons that would correspond to so-called epigenetic demethylation. The turnover rate of mRNA molecules is faster, depending on m(6)A content in HeLa cell mRNA, suggesting that specification of mRNA stability may be the major role of m(6)A exon modification. In mouse embryonic stem cells (mESCs) lacking Mettl3, the major mRNA methylase, the cells continue to grow, making the same mRNAs with unchanged splicing profiles in the absence (>90%) of m(6)A in mRNA, suggesting no common obligatory role of m(6)A in splicing. All these data argue strongly against a commonly used reversible dynamic methylation/demethylation of mRNA, calling into question the concept of RNA epigenetics that parallels the well-established role of dynamic DNA epigenetics.
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