Nature Communications (Jul 2022)

N 6-methyladenosine modification-mediated mRNA metabolism is essential for human pancreatic lineage specification and islet organogenesis

  • Xiaojie Ma,
  • Jie Cao,
  • Ziyu Zhou,
  • Yunkun Lu,
  • Qin Li,
  • Yan Jin,
  • Guo Chen,
  • Weiyun Wang,
  • Wenyan Ge,
  • Xi Chen,
  • Zhensheng Hu,
  • Xiao Shu,
  • Qian Deng,
  • Jiaqi Pu,
  • Chengzhen Liang,
  • Junfen Fu,
  • Jianzhao Liu,
  • Saiyong Zhu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-31698-2
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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Ma et al. profile the dynamic landscape of m6A during pancreatic differentiation, and identify ALKBH5 as an essential m6A regulator supporting pancreatic differentiation, indicating a role for m6A-mediated mRNA metabolism in cell-fate specification.