mAMETTL3

Xin Xu1,2, Yujuan Wang3,4, Helen Zhu3,5,6

  • 1Institute of Antibody Engineering, School of Laboratory Medicine and Biotechnology, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China. xinxu768@smu.edu.cn.

Nature cancer
|February 6, 2026
PubMed
まとめ

研究者らは、トランスクリプトーム全体にわたるN⁶-メチルアデノシン(m⁶A)修飾をマッピングするための新しいスクリーニング方法を開発しました。彼らは、前立腺がんにおいて重要なCHD9の腫瘍抑制的な部位を含む、細胞増殖に影響を与える222個のm⁶A部位を特定しました。

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