Nature Communications (Oct 2019)

Viral N 6-methyladenosine upregulates replication and pathogenesis of human respiratory syncytial virus

  • Miaoge Xue,
  • Boxuan Simen Zhao,
  • Zijie Zhang,
  • Mijia Lu,
  • Olivia Harder,
  • Phylip Chen,
  • Zhike Lu,
  • Anzhong Li,
  • Yuanmei Ma,
  • Yunsheng Xu,
  • Xueya Liang,
  • Jiyong Zhou,
  • Stefan Niewiesk,
  • Mark E. Peeples,
  • Chuan He,
  • Jianrong Li

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-12504-y
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 18

Abstract

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Here, Xue et al. identify N 6-methyladenosine (m6A) modification sites in RNAs of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) and show that these sites, particularly sites in the transcript encoding for the viral glycoprotein, affect virus replication in primary human cells and cotton rats.