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The human fat mass and obesity-associated protein FTO catalyses the removal of m6A in vitro and in vivo. It is a member of the non-haem FeII/a-ketoglutarate (a-KG)-dependent AlkB family demethylases that mainly catalyse oxidative demethylation of N-alkylated nucleic acid bases. FTO oxidizes m6A to hm6A and f6A in RNA in a step-wise manner. FTO was identified in several genome-wide-association studies to be associated with obesity and type II diabetes.

Protein sequence:

Enzymatic activities:

Reaction	Substrate	Type	Position
m6A:A	mRNA (m)		many
m6A:hm6A	mRNA (m)		many
hm6A:f6A	mRNA (m)		many

Publications:

Title	Authors	Journal	Details	PubMed Id	DOI
FTO-mediated formation of N(6)-hydroxymethyladenosine and N(6)-formyladenosine in mammalian RNA.	Fu Y, Jia G, Pang X, Wang RN, Wang X, Li CJ, Smemo S, Dai Q, Bailey KA, Nobrega MA, Han KL, Cui Q, He C...	Nat Commun	[details]	23653210	-
N6-methyladenosine in nuclear RNA is a major substrate of the obesity-associated FTO.	Jia G, Fu Y, Zhao X, Dai Q, Zheng G, Yang Y, Yi C, Lindahl T, Pan T, Yang YG, He C...	Nat Chem Biol	[details]	22002720	-
Crystal structure of the FTO protein reveals basis for its substrate specificity.	Han Z, Niu T, Chang J, Lei X, Zhao M, Wang Q, Cheng W, Wang J, Feng Y, Chai J...	Nature	[details]	20376003	-
Molecular biology. Internal mRNA methylation finally finds functions.	Nilsen TW...	Science	[details]	24626918	-
FTO-dependent demethylation of N6-methyladenosine regulates mRNA splicing and is required for adipogenesis.	Zhao X, Yang Y, Sun BF, Shi Y, Yang X, Xiao W, Hao YJ, Ping XL, Chen YS, Wang WJ, Jin KX, Wang X, Huang CM, Fu Y, Ge XM, Song SH, Jeong HS, Yanagisawa H, Niu Y, Jia GF, Wu W, Tong WM, Okamoto A, He C, Rendtlew Danielsen JM, Wang XJ, Yang YG...	Cell Res	[details]	25412662	-

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