A fundamental feature of cell signaling is the conversion of extracellular signals into adaptive transcriptional responses. The role of RNA modifications in this process is poorly understood. The small nuclear RNA 7SK prevents transcriptional elongation by sequestering the cyclin dependent kinase 9/cyclin T1 (CDK9/CCNT1) positive transcription elongation factor (P-TEFb) complex. We found that epidermal growth factor signaling induces phosphorylation of the enzyme methyltransferase 3 (METTL3), leading to METTL3-mediated methylation of 7SK. 7SK methylation enhanced its binding to heterogeneous nuclear ribonucleoproteins, causing the release of the HEXIM1 P-TEFb complex subunit1 (HEXIM1)/P-TEFb complex and inducing transcriptional elongation. Our findings establish the mechanism underlying 7SK activation and uncover a previously unknown function for the mA modification in converting growth factor signaling events into a regulatory transcriptional response via an RNA methylation-dependent switch.
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