Feiyang Wang, Qiudi Liao, Zihao Qin, Jingyi Li, Qingqing Wei, Mengna Li, Hongyu Deng, Wei Xiong, Ming Tan, Ming Zhou
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Abstract
N6-Methyladenosine (m6A) is an evolutionarily highly conserved epigenetic modification that affects eukaryotic RNAs, especially mRNAs, and m6A modification is commonly linked to tumor proliferation, progression, and therapeutic resistance by participating in RNA metabolism. Autophagy is an intracellular degradation and recycling biological process by which cells remove damaged organelles, protein aggregates, and other intracellular wastes, and release nutrients to maintain cell survival when energy is scarce. Recent studies have shown that m6A modification plays a critical role in the regulation of autophagy, affecting the initiation of autophagy, the formation and assembly of autophagosomes, and lysosomal function by regulating critical regulatory molecules involved in the process of autophagy. Moreover, autophagy can also affect the expression of the three types of regulators related to m6A, which in turn affects the levels of their target genes via m6A modification. Thus, m6A modification and autophagy form a sophisticated regulatory network through mutual regulation, which plays an important role in tumor progression and therapeutic resistance. In this manuscript, we reviewed the effects of m6A modification on autophagy as well as the effects of autophagy on m6A modification and the roles of the m6A-autophagy axis in tumor progression and therapy resistance. Additionally, we summarized the value and application prospects of key molecules in the m6A-autophagy axis in tumor diagnosis and therapy.
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Brought to readers by the editorial team of Cell Death & Differentiation, Cell Death & Disease is an online peer-reviewed journal specializing in translational cell death research. It covers a wide range of topics in experimental and internal medicine, including cancer, immunity, neuroscience, and now cancer metabolism.
Cell Death & Disease seeks to encompass the breadth of translational implications of cell death, and topics of particular concentration will include, but are not limited to, the following:
Experimental medicine
Cancer
Immunity
Internal medicine
Neuroscience
Cancer metabolism