PLX200760

GSE148882: Multi-omics analysis of hematopoietic progenitors in the fetal liver of Mettl3 deficient mice

• Organsim mouse
• Type RNASEQ
• Target gene
• Project ARCHS4

N6-methyladenosine (m6A) is the most abundant RNA modification, but little is known about its role in mammalian hematopoietic development. Conditional deletion of the m6A writer METTL3 in murine fetal liver results in hematopoietic failure and perinatal lethality. Loss of METTL3 and m6A activates an aberrant innate immune response, mediated by the formation of endogenous double-stranded RNAs (dsRNAs). The aberrantly formed dsRNAs are long, highly m6A modified in their native state, characterized by low folding energies and predominantly protein-coding. We identified coinciding activation of innate immune pattern recognition receptor pathways normally tasked with the detection of foreign dsRNAs. Our results suggest that m6A modification protects against endogenous dsRNA formation and a deleterious innate immune response during mammalian hematopoietic development.; Keywords: innate immune response, dsRNA, RNA modification, N6-methyladenosine, METTL3, hematopoietic development, RNA-seq, H3K4me3, CUT&RUN, J2-RIP, dropseq, single cell RNA-seq, scRNA-seq, LSK, fetal liver SOURCE: Toma Tebaldi (toma.tebaldi@yale.edu) - Yale University