M6A RNA Methylation is Critical for Adequate Exit from NaM-CM-/ve Pluripotency and Execution of Mammalian Development (3p-Seq)
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ABSTRACT: In this study we identify Mettl3, an m6A RNA modification writer, as a critical regulator for terminating naM-CM-/ve pluripotency and a positive maintainer of primed pluripotency in vitro and in vivo. Remarkably, Mettl3 knockout pre-implantation epiblasts and naM-CM-/ve ES cells, entirely lack m6A on coding mRNAs and are viable. Yet, they fail to adequately terminate the naM-CM-/ve pluripotent state, and subsequently undergo aberrant priming and early lineage commitment at the post-implantation stage. A comprehensive functional and genomic analysis involving profiling of m6A, RNA transcription and translation in Mettl3 wild-type and knockout pluripotent and differentiated cells, identified m6A as a critical determinant that destabilizes secondary naM-CM-/ve specific pluripotency genes Esrrb, Klf4 and Nanog, and restrains their transcript stability and translation efficiency. In summary, our findings provide for the first time evidence for a critical role for an mRNA epigenetic modification in early mammalian development in vivo, and identify a mechanism that functionally regulates mouse naM-CM-/ve and primed pluripotency in an opposing manner. 3' polyA RNA-sequencing (equivalent to Digital Gene Expression) measured in mouse Embryonic Stem Cells (ESCs) and mouse Embriod bodies (EBs) 0,4 & 8 hours after treatment with Actinomycin which halts transcription. Measured in both WT and Mettl3-KO cells.
ORGANISM(S): Mus musculus
SUBMITTER: Noa Novershtern
PROVIDER: E-GEOD-61994 | biostudies-arrayexpress |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress
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