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NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
Volume 9, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-05243-z
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- US National Institutes of Health [P01GM0066275, R01 AI125416, R00MH104712]
- Burroughs Welcome Fund
- US National Institute of Health
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N-6-Methyladenosine (m(6)A) is an abundant post-transcriptional RNA modification that influences multiple aspects of gene expression. In addition to recruiting proteins, m(6)A can modulate RNA function by destabilizing base pairing. Here, we show that when neighbored by a 5' bulge, m(6)A stabilizes m(6)A-U base pairs, and global RNA structure by similar to 1 kcal mol(-1). The bulge most likely provides the flexibility needed to allow optimal stacking between the methyl group and 3' neighbor through a conformation that is stabilized by Mg2+. A bias toward this motif can help explain the global impact of methylation on RNA structure in transcriptome-wide studies. While m(6)A embedded in duplex RNA is poorly recognized by the YTH domain reader protein and m(6)A antibodies, both readily recognize m(6)A in this newly identified motif. The results uncover potentially abundant and functional m(6)A motifs that can modulate the epitranscriptomic structure landscape with important implications for the interpretation of transcriptome-wide data.
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