Contribution to a study published in Plant Cell by Ismael Sánchez-González and Monilola Olayioye on the fate of m6A RNA degradation products

Mingjia Chen, Mounashree J. Urs, Ismael Sánchez-González, Monilola A. Olayioye, Marco Herde, Claus-Peter Witte.

 

 

The study identifies a multilayer molecular protection system functioning in Arabidopsis and human cells that suppresses the formation of N6-methyl-ATP, possibly to prevent random insertion of N6-methylated adenine into RNA.
http://www.plantcell.org/content/early/2018/06/08/tpc.18.00236