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RNA cytosine methyltransferase Nsun3 regulates embryonic stem cell differentiation by promoting mitochondrial activity

Overview of attention for article published in Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences, November 2017
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Title
RNA cytosine methyltransferase Nsun3 regulates embryonic stem cell differentiation by promoting mitochondrial activity
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Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences, November 2017
DOI 10.1007/s00018-017-2700-0
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Lukas Trixl, Thomas Amort, Alexandra Wille, Manuela Zinni, Susanne Ebner, Clara Hechenberger, Felix Eichin, Hanna Gabriel, Ines Schoberleitner, Anming Huang, Paolo Piatti, Roxana Nat, Jakob Troppmair, Alexandra Lusser

Abstract

Chemical modifications of RNA have been attracting increasing interest because of their impact on RNA fate and function. Therefore, the characterization of enzymes catalyzing such modifications is of great importance. The RNA cytosine methyltransferase NSUN3 was recently shown to generate 5-methylcytosine in the anticodon loop of mitochondrial tRNA(Met). Further oxidation of this position is required for normal mitochondrial translation and function in human somatic cells. Because embryonic stem cells (ESCs) are less dependent on oxidative phosphorylation than somatic cells, we examined the effects of catalytic inactivation of Nsun3 on self-renewal and differentiation potential of murine ESCs. We demonstrate that Nsun3-mutant cells show strongly reduced mt-tRNA(Met) methylation and formylation as well as reduced mitochondrial translation and respiration. Despite the lower dependence of ESCs on mitochondrial activity, proliferation of mutant cells was reduced, while pluripotency marker gene expression was not affected. By contrast, ESC differentiation was skewed towards the meso- and endoderm lineages at the expense of neuroectoderm. Wnt3 was overexpressed in early differentiating mutant embryoid bodies and in ESCs, suggesting that impaired mitochondrial function disturbs normal differentiation programs by interfering with cellular signalling pathways. Interestingly, basal levels of reactive oxygen species (ROS) were not altered in ESCs, but Nsun3 inactivation attenuated induction of mitochondrial ROS upon stress, which may affect gene expression programs upon differentiation. Our findings not only characterize Nsun3 as an important regulator of stem cell fate but also provide a model system to study the still incompletely understood interplay of mitochondrial function with stem cell pluripotency and differentiation.

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Unknown 56 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 11 20%
Student > Ph. D. Student 11 20%
Student > Bachelor 6 11%
Researcher 5 9%
Other 2 4%
Other 4 7%
Unknown 17 30%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 24 43%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 6 11%
Neuroscience 3 5%
Chemistry 2 4%
Medicine and Dentistry 2 4%
Other 1 2%
Unknown 18 32%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 8. 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 11 November 2017.
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