Project description:N6-methyladenosine (m6A) is the most prevalent internal modification of messenger RNA (mRNA) in higher eukaryotes. Here we report ALKBH5 as a new mammalian demethylase that oxidatively removes the m6A modification in mRNA in vitro and inside cells. This demethylation activity of ALKBH5 significantly affects mRNA export and RNA metabolism as well as the assembly of mRNA processing factors in nuclear speckles. Alkbh5-deficient male mice are characterized by impaired fertility resulting from apoptosis that affects meiotic metaphase-stage spermatocytes. In accordance with this defect, we have identified in mouse testes 1552 differentially expressed genes which cover broad functional categories and include spermatogenesis-related mRNAs involved in the p53 functional interaction network. We show that Alkbh5-deficiency impacts the expression levels of some of these mRNAs, supporting the observed phenotype. The discovery of this new RNA demethylase strongly suggests that the reversible m6A modification plays fundamental and broad functions in mammalian cells. RNA-seq in two cell types
Project description:Since m6A demethylases (FTO and ALKBH5) have been reported to be involved in pre-mRNA splicing regulation, we hypothesized that dynamic m6A distribution during mRNA maturation might involve removal of m6A in internal exons by FTO or ALKBH5 accompanied by splicing factors. To explore this we performed pull-down assays coupled with protein mass spectrometry.
Project description:Alkylation repair homolog protein 5 (ALKBH5) binds to RNA and mediates RNA m6A demethylation. However, whether ALKBH5 binds to DNA is largely unknown. In this study, our CUT&Tag assay identified 12333 peaks in ALKBH5-overexpressing Hepa1-6 cells, indicating that ALKBH5 can bind to DNA.
Project description:Alkylation repair homolog protein 5 (ALKBH5) binds to RNA and mediates RNA m6A demethylation. However, whether ALKBH5 binds to DNA is largely unknown. In this study, our CUT&RUN data show that ALKBH5 can bind to DNA in Hepa1-6 cells.
Project description:N6-methyladenonsine (m6A) modification locates ubiquitously in mammalian mRNA, and profoundly impacts various physiological processes and pathogenesis. However, the precise involvement of m6A in early endoderm development has yet to be fully elucidated. Here, we reported that depletion of the m6A demethylase ALKBH5 in human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) severely impaired definitive endoderm (DE) differentiation. Within this process, ALKBH5-/- hESCs failed to undergo the primitive streak (PS) intermediate transition, which is considered as a prelude to endoderm specification. Mechanistically, we demonstrated that ALKBH5 deficiency induced m6A hypermethylation around the 3’ untranslated region (3’UTR) of GATA6 transcripts and destabilized GATA6 mRNA in a YTHDF2-dependent manner. Moreover, dysregulation of GATA6 expression ablated its occupancy with critical regulators of Wnt/β-catenin signaling pathway, thereby disrupting the signaling logic underlying DE formation. Overall, our findings unveil a mechanism whereby the ALKBH5-GATA6-WNT/β-catenin axis modulates human in vitro DE induction, and present novel insights on m6A modification in early embryonic development.
Project description:ALKBH5 play important role in regulation of trophoblast invasion, we examined the downstream genes of ALKBH5 via transcriptome sequencing
Project description:ALKBH5 is the RNA N(6)-methyladenosine (m6A) demethylase. To understhand the function and mechnism of ALKBH5 in human acute myeloid leukemia, we compared the translational efficiency in wild-type and ALKBH5-knock-down MOLM-13 cells.
Project description:We here report ALKBH5, a m6A RNA demethylase, as a crucial oncogene in multiple myeloma (MM). Using various MM models, we demonstrated a critical requirement of ALKBH5 for MM cell proliferation in vitro and in vivo. To identify the potential mRNA targets of ALKBH5, we conducted m6A-seq with mRNA samples enriched from MM cells with or without ALKBH5 knockdown.
Project description:ALKBH5 is one of the important m6A demethylases and is reported to be closely associated with tumorigenesis.In this study, we investigated whether ALKBH5 could affect genome-wide DNA methylation pattern. We investigated DNA methylation profile of ALKBH5 deleted HCT116 cell with control cell. The Illumina Infinium HumanMethylation 850K BeadChip was used. Samples included 2 HCT1116 shNC and 4 HCT116 shALKBH5.