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Overexpression of the methyltransferase brillarin results in increased levels of 2′-O-Me modications, decreased translational quality control, and increased inter­nal ribosome entry site (IRES)-mediated translation of cancer-related genes [295]. Ribosome biogenesis has become an attractive anti-cancer target, and multiple compounds exist that inhibit rRNA transcription, processing, or ribosome assembly [296]. These drugs include platinum-based compounds, the RNA polymerase I inhibitor actinomycin D, 5-uorouridine, and poly-ADP ribose polymerase (PARP) inhibitors. A newer promising drug, CX-5461 [297], has been shown to inhibit Pol I transcription and has already completed a phase 1 clinical trial. To the best of our knowledge, no treatments are yet in development that target specic rRNA-modifying enzymes or snoRNP levels; however, such compounds could conceivably be added to the arsenal of ribosome biogenesis inhibitors.
12.4 Concluding Remarks
The study of RNA modications has emerged as a major area in biomedical research. As highlighted in this chapter, there is a large diversity of post-transcriptional mod­ications occurring on all types of RNA. These modications regulate gene expres­sion through dierent mechanisms and playan important role in biology.Clear links to human disease resulting from absence or dysregulation of modications have been established, and therapeutics targeting RNA modication-associated proteins, or exploiting modication pathways, are in active development. Arguably, we have only scratched the surface of the ∼170 dierent modied nucleotides that are known in biological systems.
With expanding studies of RNA modication biology and disease-associated phenotypes, we urge caution in interpreting the eects of modication pathways given the signicant gaps in the characterization of RNA modication sites and associated molecular mechanisms. RNA modication mapping is still largely a cottage industry [252], and we lack unied approaches for characterizing the distribution and stoichiometry of multiple RNA modications transcriptome-wide in a single biological sample. Recently, direct RNA sequencing technologies such as nanopore sequencing (commercialized by Oxford Nanopore Technologies) oer the promise of quantitative modication sequencing across multiple modication types [253]; however, it is becoming apparent that only a subset of epitranscrip­tomic modications can be readily detected using this technology in its current implementation [298]. In addition to modication mapping, identication and characterization of relevant RNA-modifying enzymes is still incomplete in many organisms. Continued innovation in technologies for mapping RNA modications [167, 299] and identifying and characterizing RNA-modifying enzymes [65, 300] are likely to have a considerable impact on the future of the epitranscriptomics eld. Once these methods are in place and widely accessible, functional studies of individual modication sites, connecting observations in dened in vitro systems with cell biological and organismal phenotypes, should enable the development of rigorous molecular frameworks for understanding RNA modication biology.
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Finally, despite the rapid development of METTL3 inhibitors, there are cur­rently few available small-molecule modulators of RNA-modifying enzymes. While nucleic-acid-modifying enzymes do present some unique molecular challenges compared to more traditional protein targets, the success with METTL3 and the recent emergence of ADAR1 inhibitors suggest that the standard tools of small-molecule discovery and medicinal chemistry can be readily applied to this class of proteins. Therefore, leveraging advances in chemical biology, structural biology, medicinal chemistry, and in silico screen­ing, among other approaches, will likely yield promising starting points for small-molecule probes. Such compounds will not only accelerate therapeutic development but can also serve as tool compounds to facilitate the chemical genetic exploration of the diverse biological role(s) of RNA modication-associated proteins.
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