Enzymes flying under the radar: Cryptic METTL3 can persist in knockout cells.
The presence of m6A in mRNA of METTL3 knockout cells has long been a point of confusion. In this issue of PLOS Biology, Poh and colleagues reveal alternatively spliced, catalytically active METTL3 isoforms that persist in cells previously thought to lack the enzyme.
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Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2022-07-01
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Series: | PLoS Biology |
Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3001717 |