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University of New Orleans

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Role Of Ime4 And Pho92 Proteins In Pho5 Regulation, Krishna Shah May 2017

Role Of Ime4 And Pho92 Proteins In Pho5 Regulation, Krishna Shah

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In the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, m6A methylation regulates the stability and translation of mRNA. Ime4, which is highly active in meiotic cells, recognizes consensus methyl sites in pre-mRNA and adds methyl groups to a small fraction of adenosine residues, whereas Pho92 binds to such methylated sites and promotes subsequent degradation. PHO5 transcripts expression is upregulated when IME4 and PHO92 are deleted. In the PHO5 transcript, near the stop codon of the open reading frame (ORF), there is a potential consensus methyl site that is predicted to be methylated, based on its location and excellent match to the consensus methylation sequence …