Nature Communications (Mar 2022)

Fusobacterium nucleatum reduces METTL3-mediated m6A modification and contributes to colorectal cancer metastasis

  • Shujie Chen,,
  • Lu Zhang,
  • Mengjie Li,
  • Ying Zhang,
  • Meng Sun,
  • Lingfang Wang,
  • Jiebo Lin,
  • Yun Cui,
  • Qian Chen,
  • Chenqi Jin,
  • Xiang Li,
  • Boya Wang,
  • Hao Chen,
  • Tianhua Zhou,
  • Liangjing Wang,
  • Chih-Hung Hsu,
  • Wei Zhuo

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-28913-5
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 16

Abstract

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Fusobacterium nucleatum contributes to host epitranscriptomic modifications and colorectal cancer (CRC) development. Here, the authors show that Fusobacterium nucleatum reduces global m6A modifications to promote CRC metastasis through a YAP/FOXD3/METTL3/KIF26B axis.