Nature Communications (Oct 2019)

N 6-methyladenosine modification of circNSUN2 facilitates cytoplasmic export and stabilizes HMGA2 to promote colorectal liver metastasis

  • Ri-Xin Chen,
  • Xin Chen,
  • Liang-Ping Xia,
  • Jia-Xing Zhang,
  • Zhi-Zhong Pan,
  • Xiao-Dan Ma,
  • Kai Han,
  • Jie-Wei Chen,
  • Jean-Gabrie Judde,
  • Olivier Deas,
  • Feng Wang,
  • Ning-Fang Ma,
  • Xinyuan Guan,
  • Jing-Ping Yun,
  • Feng-Wei Wang,
  • Rui-Hua Xu,
  • Dan Xie

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-12651-2
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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Liver metastasis of colorectal cancer leads to poor prognosis. Here the authors report that an N 6-methyladenosine modified circular RNA is upregulated in colorectal cancer and promotes liver metastasis by enhancing the stability of HMGA2 mRNA.