Messenger RNA Methylation Regulates Glioblastoma Tumorigenesis

Publication date: 10 April 2017
Source:Cancer Cell, Volume 31, Issue 4
Author(s): Deobrat Dixit, Qi Xie, Jeremy N. Rich, Jing Crystal Zhao
Messenger RNA (mRNA) modification provides an additional layer of gene regulation in cells. In this issue of Cancer Cell, Zhang et al. report that ALKBH5, a demethylase of the mRNA modification N⁶-methyladenosine, regulates proliferation and self-renewal of glioblastoma stem-like cells by modulating pre-mRNA stability and expression of the FOXM1 gene.

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Messenger RNA (mRNA) modification provides an additional layer of gene regulation in cells. In this issue of Cancer Cell, Zhang et al. report that ALKBH5, a demethylase of the mRNA modification N⁶-methyladenosine, regulates proliferation and self-renewal of glioblastoma stem-like cells by modulating pre-mRNA stability and expression of the FOXM1 gene.


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