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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Trixl, L., Lusser, A. Getting a hold on cytosine methylation in mRNA. Nat Struct Mol Biol 26, 339–340 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41594-019-0217-y
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