Volume 29, No 1, Jan 2019

ISSN: 1001-0602 
EISSN: 1748-7838 2018 
impact factor 17.848* 
(Clarivate Analytics, 2019)

Volume 29 Issue 1, January 2019: 4-5

RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS

m6A-epitranscriptome modulates memory strength

Sebastian Krüttner ¹ and Pico Caroni ¹

¹Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Basel, Switzerland
Correspondence: Correspondence: Pico Caroni (caroni@fmi.ch)

Memory traces are modified during several hours following learning, to produce behaviorally adaptive long-term memories. In a recent paper published in Cell Research, Zhang et al. provide evidence that N 6 -methyladenosine modification of mRNAs augments the strength of weak memories.

https://doi.org/10.1038/s41422-018-0121-8

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