Nature Communications (Sep 2022)

Structural insights into molecular mechanism for N 6-adenosine methylation by MT-A70 family methyltransferase METTL4

  • Qiang Luo,
  • Jiezhen Mo,
  • Hao Chen,
  • Zetao Hu,
  • Baihui Wang,
  • Jiabing Wu,
  • Ziyu Liang,
  • Wenhao Xie,
  • Kangxi Du,
  • Maolin Peng,
  • Yingping Li,
  • Tianyang Li,
  • Yangyi Zhang,
  • Xiaoyan Shi,
  • Wen-Hui Shen,
  • Yang Shi,
  • Aiwu Dong,
  • Hailin Wang,
  • Jinbiao Ma

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-33277-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Here the authors combine functional and structural work to show that METTL4 functions as U2 snRNA m6Am RNA methyltransferase supporting N6-methylation of 2’-O-methyladenosine in Arabidopsis.