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Regulation of Gene Expression Associated With the N6-Methyladenosine (m6A) Enzyme System and Its Significance in Cancer
N6-methyladenosine (m6A), an important RNA modification, is a reversible behavior catalyzed by methyltransferase complexes (m6A “writers”), demethylated transferases (m6A “erasers”), and binding proteins (m6A “readers”). It plays a vital regulatory role in biological functions, involving in a variet...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7859513/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33552994 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fonc.2020.623634 |
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author | Tian, Shuoran Lai, Junzhong Yu, Tingting Li, Qiumei Chen, Qi |
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description | N6-methyladenosine (m6A), an important RNA modification, is a reversible behavior catalyzed by methyltransferase complexes (m6A “writers”), demethylated transferases (m6A “erasers”), and binding proteins (m6A “readers”). It plays a vital regulatory role in biological functions, involving in a variety of physiological and pathological processes. The level of m6A will affect the RNA metabolism including the degradation of mRNA, and processing or translation of the modified RNA. Its abnormal changes will lead to disrupting the regulation of gene expression and promoting the occurrence of aberrant cell behavior. The abnormal expression of m6A enzyme system can be a crucial impact disturbing the abundance of m6A, thus affecting the expression of oncogenes or tumor suppressor genes in various types of cancer. In this review, we elucidate the special role of m6A “writers”, “erasers”, and “readers” in normal physiology, and how their altered expression affects the cell metabolism and promotes the occurrence of tumors. We also discuss the potential to target these enzymes for cancer diagnosis, prognosis, and the development of new therapies. |
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spelling | pubmed-78595132021-02-05 Regulation of Gene Expression Associated With the N6-Methyladenosine (m6A) Enzyme System and Its Significance in Cancer Tian, Shuoran Lai, Junzhong Yu, Tingting Li, Qiumei Chen, Qi Front Oncol Oncology N6-methyladenosine (m6A), an important RNA modification, is a reversible behavior catalyzed by methyltransferase complexes (m6A “writers”), demethylated transferases (m6A “erasers”), and binding proteins (m6A “readers”). It plays a vital regulatory role in biological functions, involving in a variety of physiological and pathological processes. The level of m6A will affect the RNA metabolism including the degradation of mRNA, and processing or translation of the modified RNA. Its abnormal changes will lead to disrupting the regulation of gene expression and promoting the occurrence of aberrant cell behavior. The abnormal expression of m6A enzyme system can be a crucial impact disturbing the abundance of m6A, thus affecting the expression of oncogenes or tumor suppressor genes in various types of cancer. In this review, we elucidate the special role of m6A “writers”, “erasers”, and “readers” in normal physiology, and how their altered expression affects the cell metabolism and promotes the occurrence of tumors. We also discuss the potential to target these enzymes for cancer diagnosis, prognosis, and the development of new therapies. Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-01-21 /pmc/articles/PMC7859513/ /pubmed/33552994 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fonc.2020.623634 Text en Copyright © 2021 Tian, Lai, Yu, Li and Chen http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Oncology Tian, Shuoran Lai, Junzhong Yu, Tingting Li, Qiumei Chen, Qi Regulation of Gene Expression Associated With the N6-Methyladenosine (m6A) Enzyme System and Its Significance in Cancer |
title | Regulation of Gene Expression Associated With the N6-Methyladenosine (m6A) Enzyme System and Its Significance in Cancer |
title_full | Regulation of Gene Expression Associated With the N6-Methyladenosine (m6A) Enzyme System and Its Significance in Cancer |
title_fullStr | Regulation of Gene Expression Associated With the N6-Methyladenosine (m6A) Enzyme System and Its Significance in Cancer |
title_full_unstemmed | Regulation of Gene Expression Associated With the N6-Methyladenosine (m6A) Enzyme System and Its Significance in Cancer |
title_short | Regulation of Gene Expression Associated With the N6-Methyladenosine (m6A) Enzyme System and Its Significance in Cancer |
title_sort | regulation of gene expression associated with the n6-methyladenosine (m6a) enzyme system and its significance in cancer |
topic | Oncology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7859513/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33552994 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fonc.2020.623634 |
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