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A Method for Measuring RNA N6-methyladenosine Modifications in Cells and Tissues
Published on: December 5, 2016
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Steric hindrance of N6-methyl in m6A and its application for specific loci detection
Xiaoyi Xie1, Qi Wei1, Jingyu Han1
1College of Chemistry and Molecular Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, Hubei, China. xcweng@whu.edu.cn.
Abstract:
We found that the N6 methyl group of N6-methyladenine is able to hinder the methylation of N6-methyladenine at the N1 position by DMS. Based on this, we have devised a novel method for detecting N6-methyladenine, which was successfully applied to identify specific m6A loci in 28S rRNA.

