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METTL6 is a tRNA m <sup>3</sup> C methyltransferase that regulates pluripotency and tumor cell growth

V. V. Ignatova, Steffen Kaiser, Jessica Ho, Xinyang Bing, Paul Stolz, Ying Xim Tan, Chee Leng Lee, Florence Pik Hoon Gay, Palma Rico Lastres, Raffaele Gerlini, Birgit Rathkolb, Juan Antonio Aguilar‐Pimentel, Adrián Sanz‐Moreno, Tanja Klein‐Rodewald, Julia Calzada‐Wack, Emil Ibragimov, Magdalena Valenta, Saulius Lukauskas, Andrea Pavesi, Susan Marschall, Stefanie Leuchtenberger, Helmut Fuchs, Valérie Gailus‐Durner, Martin Hrabě de Angelis, Sebastian Bultmann, Oliver J. Rando, Ernesto Guccione, Stefanie Kellner, Robert Schneider

2020Science Advances103 citationsDOIOpen Access PDF

Abstract

knockout results in reduced energy expenditure. We reveal a previously unknown pathway in the maintenance of translation efficiency with a role in maintaining stem cell self-renewal, as well as impacting tumor cell growth profoundly.

Topics & Concepts

MethyltransferaseTransfer RNARNABiologyMethylationCell growthCell biologyTranslation (biology)EpigeneticsCancer researchBiochemistryMessenger RNAGeneRNA modifications and cancerCancer-related gene regulationRNA and protein synthesis mechanisms