Writer's block: preventing m 6 A mRNA methylation promotes T cell naivety

A methylation rendezvous: reader meets writers.

It is well established that two marks of silent chromatin, DNA methylation and histone H3 methylation at lysine 9, engage in an epigenetic conversation. In a recent issue of Genes & Development, Smallwood et al. (2007) report that the mammalian HP1 adaptor "translates" methylation information from histone to DNA, helping to cement epigenetic expression states.

Perturbation of m6A writers reveals two distinct classes of mRNA methylation at internal and 5' sites.

N6-methyladenosine (m6A) is a common modification of mRNA with potential roles in fine-tuning the RNA life cycle. Here, we identify a dense network of proteins interacting with METTL3, a component of the methyltransferase complex, and show that three of them (WTAP, METTL14, and KIAA1429) are required for methylation. Monitoring m6A levels upon WTAP depletion allowed the definition of accurate a...

Nuclear m(6)A Reader YTHDC1 Regulates mRNA Splicing.

N(6)-Methyladenosine (m(6)A) is emerging as a chemical mark that broadly affects the flow of genetic information in various biological processes in eukaryotes. Recently, Xiao et al. reported that the nuclear m(6)A reader protein YTHDC1 impacts mRNA splicing, providing a transcriptome-wide glance of splicing changes affected by this mRNA methylation reader protein.

Orexin A promotes granulosa cell secretion of progesterone in sheep

Background: Orexin A, a small-molecule peptide, can regulate female hormones, but limited evidence for its mechanism of activity exists in ovine. Aims: The objective of this study was to investigate the effect of orexin A on progesterone (P4) secretion in cultured granulosa of sheep follicles. Methods: Sheep ovarian granulosa were isolated and ...

A THEMIS:SHP complex promotes T cell survival