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Global loss of cellular m6A RNA methylation following infection with different SARS-CoV-2 variants

Overview of attention for article published in Genome Research, March 2023
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Title
Global loss of cellular m6A RNA methylation following infection with different SARS-CoV-2 variants
Published in
Genome Research, March 2023
DOI 10.1101/gr.276407.121
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Roshan Vaid, Akram Mendez, Ketan Thombare, Rebeca Burgos-Panadero, Rémy Robinot, Barbara F Fonseca, Nikhil R Gandasi, Johan Ringlander, Mohammad Hassan Baig, Jae-June Dong, Jae Yong Cho, Björn Reinius, Lisa A Chakrabarti, Kristina Nystrom, Tanmoy Mondal

Abstract

Host-viral interactions during SARS-CoV-2 infection are needed to understand COVID-19 pathogenesis and may help to guide the design of novel antiviral therapeutics. N6-methyladenosine modification (m6A), one of the most abundant cellular RNA modifications, regulates key processes in RNA metabolism during a stress response. Gene expression profiles observed post-infection with different SARS-CoV-2 variants show changes in the expression of genes related to RNA catabolism, including m6A readers and erasers. We found that infection with SARS-CoV-2 variants caused a loss of m6A in cellular RNAs, whereas m6A was detected abundantly in viral RNA. METTL3, the m6A methyltransferase, showed an unusual cytoplasmic localization post-infection. The B.1.351 variant had a less pronounced effect on METTL3 localization and loss of m6A than the B.1 and B.1.1.7 variants. We also observed a loss of m6A upon SARS-CoV-2 infection in air/liquid interface cultures of human airway epithelia, confirming that m6A loss is characteristic of SARS-CoV-2 infected cells. Further, transcripts with m6A modification were preferentially down-regulated post-infection. Inhibition of the export protein XPO1 resulted in the restoration of METTL3 localization, recovery of m6A on cellular RNA, and increased mRNA expression. Stress granule formation, which was compromised by SARS-CoV-2 infection, was restored by XPO1 inhibition and accompanied by a reduced viral infection in vitro. Together, our study elucidates how SARS-CoV-2 inhibits the stress response and perturbs cellular gene expression in an m6A-dependent manner.

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 5 33%
Unspecified 1 7%
Student > Bachelor 1 7%
Lecturer 1 7%
Student > Ph. D. Student 1 7%
Other 1 7%
Unknown 5 33%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 6 40%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 3 20%
Unspecified 1 7%
Unknown 5 33%
Attention Score in Context

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 62. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 18 November 2023.
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#706,556
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#219
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