Enhancing climate change resilience in agricultural crops

Y Benitez-Alfonso, BK Soanes, S Zimba, B Sinanaj… - Current Biology, 2023 - cell.com
Climate change threatens global food and nutritional security through negative effects on
crop growth and agricultural productivity. Many countries have adopted ambitious climate …

RNA methylation in plants: An overview

H Shinde, A Dudhate, US Kadam… - Frontiers in Plant Science, 2023 - frontiersin.org
RNA methylation is an important post-transcriptional modification that influences gene
regulation. Over 200 different types of RNA modifications have been identified in plants. In …

De novo variants in the RNU4-2 snRNA cause a frequent neurodevelopmental syndrome

Y Chen, R Dawes, HC Kim, A Ljungdahl, SL Stenton… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Around 60% of individuals with neurodevelopmental disorders (NDD) remain undiagnosed
after comprehensive genetic testing, primarily of protein-coding genes. Large genome …

FIONA1-mediated methylation of the 3'UTR of FLC affects FLC transcript levels and flowering in Arabidopsis

B Sun, KK Bhati, P Song, A Edwards, L Petri… - PLoS …, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Adenosine bases of RNA can be transiently modified by the deposition of a methyl-group to
form N6-methyladenosine (m6A). This adenosine-methylation is an ancient process and the …

FLK is an mRNA m6A reader that regulates floral transition by modulating the stability and splicing of FLC in Arabidopsis

U Amara, J Hu, J Cai, H Kang - Molecular Plant, 2023 - cell.com
Abstract N 6-methyladenosine (m 6 A), which is added, removed, and interpreted by m 6 A
writers, erasers, and readers, respectively, is the most abundant modification in eukaryotic …

From computational models of the splicing code to regulatory mechanisms and therapeutic implications

C Capitanchik, OG Wilkins, N Wagner… - Nature Reviews …, 2024 - nature.com
Since the discovery of RNA splicing and its role in gene expression, researchers have
sought a set of rules, an algorithm or a computational model that could predict the splice …

Ghost authors revealed: The structure and function of human N6‐methyladenosine RNA methyltransferases

K Breger, CN Kunkler, NJ O'Leary… - Wiley …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Despite the discovery of modified nucleic acids nearly 75 years ago, their biological
functions are still being elucidated. N 6‐methyladenosine (m6A) is the most abundant …

Inter-species association map** links splice site evolution to METTL16 and SNRNP27K

MT Parker, SM Fica, GJ Barton, GG Simpson - Elife, 2023 - elifesciences.org
Eukaryotic genes are interrupted by introns that are removed from transcribed RNAs by
splicing. Patterns of splicing complexity differ between species, but it is unclear how these …

Methyltransferase ATMETTL5 writes m6A on 18S ribosomal RNA to regulate translation in Arabidopsis

P Song, E Tian, Z Cai, X Chen, S Chen, K Yu… - New …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Aberrant RNA modifications can lead to dysregulated gene expression and impeded growth
in plants. Ribosomal RNA (rRNA) constitutes a substantial portion of total RNA, while the …

N 2-methylguanosine modifications on human tRNAs and snRNA U6 are important for cell proliferation, protein translation and pre-mRNA splicing

C Wang, N Ulryck, L Herzel, N Pythoud… - Nucleic Acids …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Modified nucleotides in non-coding RNAs, such as tRNAs and snRNAs, represent an
important layer of gene expression regulation through their ability to fine-tune mRNA …