| Literature DB >> 24481042 |
Shuibin Lin1, Richard I Gregory1.
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Emerging data support that RNA methylation plays important roles in RNA processing and metabolism. The methyltransferases Mettl3 and Mettl14 are shown to catalyse N(6)-methyladenosine (m(6)A) RNA modification in embryonic stem cells (ESCs). This m(6)A modification controls RNA metabolism and functions to destabilize mRNAs encoding developmental regulators to help sustain ESC self-renewal.Entities:
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Year: 2014 PMID: 24481042 DOI: 10.1038/ncb2914
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Nat Cell Biol ISSN: 1465-7392 Impact factor: 28.824