FTO (Alpha-ketoglutarate-dependent dioxygenase FTO) is an enzyme. The public catalogues list it as a drug target, and clinical evidence ties its variants to diagnosis, prognosis or drug response. Tied to Breast cancer. This dossier gathers the 0 products (0 approved), 0 trials, 0 pathways and 0 resistance routes in the corpus that involve it, with external identifiers so it can be joined to UniProt, ChEMBL, Open Targets and the rest of biology.
Biology
RNA demethylase that mediates oxidative demethylation of different RNA species, such as mRNAs, tRNAs and snRNAs, and acts as a regulator of fat mass, adipogenesis and energy homeostasis. Specifically demethylates N(6)-methyladenosine (m6A) RNA, the most prevalent internal modification of messenger RNA (mRNA) in higher eukaryotes. M6A demethylation by FTO affects mRNA expression and stability. Also able to demethylate m6A in U6 small nuclear RNA (snRNA). Mediates demethylation of N(6),2'-O-dimethyladenosine cap (m6A(m)), by demethylating the N(6)-methyladenosine at the second transcribed position of mRNAs and U6 snRNA. Demethylation of m6A(m) in the 5'-cap by FTO affects mRNA stability by promoting susceptibility to decapping. Location: Nucleus; Nucleus speckle; Cytoplasm (UniProt). Locus 16q12.2 (HGNC).
- Breast cancer: Open Targets association 0.61 with breast cancer (MONDO_0007254)
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Literature
Preprints →Query for this target: (TITLE:"FTO" OR ABSTRACT:"FTO" OR TITLE:"FTO alpha-ketoglutarate dependent dioxygenase" OR ABSTRACT:"FTO alpha-ketoglutarate dependent dioxygenase" OR TITLE:"Alpha-ketoglutarate-dependent dioxygenase FTO" OR ABSTRACT:"Alpha-ketoglutarate-dependent dioxygenase FTO" OR TITLE:"KIAA1752" OR ABSTRACT:"KIAA1752" OR TITLE:"MGC5149" OR ABSTRACT:"MGC5149" OR TITLE:"ALKBH9" OR ABSTRACT:"ALKBH9") AND (cancer OR tumor OR tumour OR oncology OR carcinoma OR lymphoma OR leukemia OR leukaemia OR myeloma OR sarcoma OR melanoma OR glioma). Results are unfiltered search hits about FTO, not a curated reading list.
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The dossier as machine-readable JSON: identifiers from HGNC, Ensembl, UniProt and ChEMBL, products with status, trials, pathways, hotspots, open questions and assays. The full entity record is in the open API at /api/v1/entities/fto.json. Licence CC BY-NC 4.0.