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Getting a hold on cytosine methylation in mRNA

Nature Structural & Molecular Biology volume 26, pages 339–340 (2019)Cite this article

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Cytosine methylation (m5C) is one of the more disputed base modifications of the epitranscriptome, mostly because current methods for detection are prone to artifacts. A new approach to increase detection accuracy reveals intriguing evidence of a role for the tRNA methyltransferase NSUN2 in the methylation of mRNA.

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Fig. 1: Sequence context of m5C sites in mammalian mRNA.

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Research in the author’s laboratory is funded by Austrian Science Fund (FWF) grant P27024-BBL to A.L.

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