Nature Communications (Oct 2020)

Functional role of Tet-mediated RNA hydroxymethylcytosine in mouse ES cells and during differentiation

  • Jie Lan,
  • Nicholas Rajan,
  • Martin Bizet,
  • Audrey Penning,
  • Nitesh K. Singh,
  • Diana Guallar,
  • Emilie Calonne,
  • Andrea Li Greci,
  • Elise Bonvin,
  • Rachel Deplus,
  • Phillip J. Hsu,
  • Sigrid Nachtergaele,
  • Chengjie Ma,
  • Renhua Song,
  • Alejandro Fuentes-Iglesias,
  • Bouchra Hassabi,
  • Pascale Putmans,
  • Frédérique Mies,
  • Gerben Menschaert,
  • Justin J. L. Wong,
  • Jianlong Wang,
  • Miguel Fidalgo,
  • Bifeng Yuan,
  • François Fuks

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-18729-6
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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TET mediated RNA-hydroxymethylation (5hmC) has been detected in mammals, but its physiological role remains unclear. Here the authors map 5hmC during embryonic stem cell (ESC) differentiation and find that Tet-mediated RNA hydroxymethylation reduces the stability of crucial pluripotency related transcripts.