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mRNA Interactome Capture from Plant Protoplasts

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Published on: July 28, 2017

植物におけるmRNAアセチル化の新たな役割

Jie Zhao¹, Changhua Zhu¹, Xiaoyun Song¹

¹College of Life Sciences, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, P.R. China.

Plant communications

|January 30, 2026

Abstract:

N⁴-acetylcytidine (ac⁴C) is a conserved acetylation modification on messenger RNA (mRNA) recently identified in plants. It is deposited by the N-ACETYLTRANSFERASE FOR CYTIDINE IN RNA (ACYR) protein, which is homologous to mammalian N-ACETYLTRANSFERASE (NAT10) (Wang et al., 2023; Li et al., 2023). Here, we describe the defining features and functional landscape of ACYR-dependent ac⁴C marks, their effects on mRNA expression, stability, splicing, and translation, and their roles in leaf development (Wang et al., 2023), photosynthesis (Zhao et al., 2025; Cai et al., 2025), thermosensory flowering (Wu et al., 2025), and plant defense (Lu et al., 2024). We highlight current methods for ac⁴C profiling and discuss future directions in ac⁴C research.mRNA acetylation occurs in plants.

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mRNAアセチル化植物エピジェネティクス N4-アセチルシチジン ac4C

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