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Record W4412708446 · doi:10.1038/s44318-025-00512-2

YTHDF3 recognizes DNA N6-methyladenine and recruits ALKBH1 for 6mA removal from genomic DNA

2025· article· en· W4412708446 on OpenAlexaff
Zilu Wang, Jianming Yang, Siyi Zhao, Kunxiong Guo, Xuelong Zheng, Zhengwei Zhao, Xiaoqiang Chen, Minmin Zhang, Ling Ran, Hui‐Fang Zhu, Xiaofeng Gu, Guang‐Rong Yan

Bibliographic record

VenueThe EMBO Journal · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
TopicRNA modifications and cancer
Canadian institutionsBiotechnology Research Institute
FundersNational Natural Science Foundation of China
KeywordsBiologyDNAgenomic DNAGeneticsMolecular biologyComputational biology

Abstract

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-methyladenine (6mA) is an emerging epigenetic mark in the mammalian genome. ALKBH1 preferentially exhibits 6mA demethylase activity for single-stranded DNA (ssDNA) or bubbled/bulged DNA, but not for double-stranded DNA (dsDNA). Nevertheless, ALKBH1 significantly decreases the cellular 6mA level in genomic DNA, whose prevailing DNA conformation in living mammalian cells is dsDNA. Therefore, the demethylase activity of ALKBH1 toward 6mA in genomic DNA, especially dsDNA, remains largely debated. Here, we found that YTHDF3 increases the 6mA demethylase activity of ALKBH1 in genomic DNA with different conformations, including dsDNA. Compared with ALKBH1, YTHDF3 preferentially recognizes and binds to 6mA-modified DNA with different conformations. YTHDF3 recognizes 6mA in genomic DNA, and binds ALKBH1 to recruit it to sites near 6mA in genomic DNA, thereby facilitating the ALKBH1-mediated removal of 6mA in genomic dsDNA. In summary, YTHDF3 is a novel genomic DNA reader and guides ALKBH1 to remove 6mA in human genomic DNA.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Bench or experimental · Consensus signal: Bench or experimental
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.002
Threshold uncertainty score0.008

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0020.001

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.018
GPT teacher head0.281
Teacher spread0.263 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designBench or experimental
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Published2025
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